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The Transplant Nursing Symposium in Orlando, FL, USA will be here before you know it! Please consider nominating a colleague for an ITNS award.
Transplant Nursing Excellence Award: Recognizes an exemplary nurse (RN or equivalent) for their care of transplant patients and their embodiment of the ITNS mission and values.
Friend of Transplant Nursing Award: Recognizes an individual outside the nursing profession who has supported the efforts of ITNS and made an impact in the field of transplant nursing.
All nominations must be received by Aug. 30, 2019.
Be a part of the Transplant Nursing Photo Contest! Snap a picture that conveys your experience as a transplant nurse and ITNS members will vote for their favorite image.
It's easy! Simply email your favorite transplant nursing-related photo with a title, short description, and signed permission form for everyone that appears in the photo.
Visit the ITNS website for full contest details. Email all submissions to Rita Wirth, ITNS Staff, at rwith@itns.org by Friday, Oct. 4, 2019.
The American Academy of Nursing's more than 2,600 fellows are nursing's most accomplished leaders in education, management, practice, and research. They have been recognized for their extraordinary contributions to nursing and health care. The inductees will be honored at a ceremony during the Academy's annual policy conference, Transforming Health, Driving Policy, which will take place October 24-26, 2019 in Washington, D.C.
Congratulations to the ITNS members who are included in the 2019 Class of New Fellows:
Joyce A. Trompeta, PhD, PNP — University of California, San Francisco
Christiane Kugler, PhD, RN — University of Freiburg
Click here to read the full list of fellows.
The Transplant Nursing Symposium presented by ITNS is specifically designed for transplant nurses, coordinators, and professionals to engage in a dialogue on key issues in organ transplant. Discounted registration rates (a $100 savings) are available until Oct. 16. Visit the Symposium website to register and learn more about group registration discounts (register 5, get 1 free), view the full schedule, hotel information, and more.
Transplantation
Organ transplantation as an option to overcome end-stage diseases is common in countries with advanced healthcare systems and is increasingly provided in emerging and developing countries. A review of the literature points to sex- and gender-based inequity in the field with differences reported at each step of the transplant process, including access to a transplantation waiting list, access to transplantation once waitlisted, as well as outcome after transplantation.
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Renal & Urology News
Higher doses of vitamin D than are currently recommended in guidelines may be necessary to lower fracture risk in renal transplant recipients, according to study findings presented at the 56th European Renal Association-European Dialysis and Transplant Association Congress in Budapest, Hungary.
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AASLD
Access to quality hospital care is a persistent problem for rural patients. Little is known about rural‐urban disparities in in‐hospital outcomes for end‐stage liver disease patients. Researchers aimed to determine whether rural ESLD patients experienced higher in‐hospital mortality than urban patients, and whether disparities were attributable to the rurality of the patient or the center.
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HemOnc Today via Healio
Race-matched liver transplants significantly improved OS among black patients with early hepatocellular carcinoma, according to study results published in Journal of the American College of Surgeons. “In a large national data set, we found an intriguing signal that black patients who received a race-matched liver transplant appear to have significantly improved survival,” Gamblin told HemOnc Today. “This merits further investigation to understand if this is a worthwhile criterion to pursue.”
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Wiley Online Library
The HIV Organ Policy Equity Act, enacted on November 21, 2013, enables research on the transplantation of organs from donors infected with HIV into HIV+ individuals who, prior to transplantation, are infected with HIV. In 2015, the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network revised organ allocation policies on November 21, and on November 23, the Secretary of Health and Human Services published research criteria and revised the Final Rule accordingly.
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The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
The national opioid epidemic has expanded the donor pool for heart transplantation, but concerns remain regarding infectious risk and allograft function. This study compared donor and recipient characteristics, outcomes, and reasons for organ discard between overdose-death donors and donors with all other mechanism of death.
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American Journal of Transplantation
Based on reports in adult lung transplant recipients, researchers hypothesized that community acquired respiratory viral infections would be a risk factor for poor outcome after pediatric lung transplant. The study followed 61 pediatric lung transplant recipients for 2+ years or until they met a composite primary endpoint including bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome/obliterative bronchiolitis, re-transplantation or death.
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Healio
For transplant recipients with type 2 diabetes, delayed graft function was more common in those with higher BMIs and allograft survival was lowest in those categorized as obese or underweight, according to research presented at the American Transplant Congress.
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