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HLA: What’s Your Flag – This activity allows the learner to use knowledge gained from prior courses in the series to reinforce learning of how HLA can have a significant impact on the outcome of an organ transplant.
From Knowledge to Clinical Practice – This course highlights the importance of understanding basic histocompatibility concepts in order to provide effective patient education throughout each phase of the transplant process.
ABCs of HLA – In this recorded presentation, Dr. Robert Bray discusses the history and relevance of histocompatibility in organ transplantation. He uses practical examples of how the body’s immune system responds to an organ transplant and how matching by HLA can help provide better organ transplant outcomes.
Find these offerings in UNOS Connect as part of the Histocompatibility Learning Series.
Transplantation
Robotic-assisted kidney transplantation (RAKT) represents the most recent innovation in the evolution of kidney transplantation surgery. Vascular techniques enabling kidney transplantation have existed since the early 20th century and contributed to the first successful open kidney transplant procedure in 1954. Technical advances have since facilitated minimally invasive laparoscopic and robotic techniques in live-donor surgery, and subsequently for the recipient procedure.
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Liver Transplantation
The increased use of split liver transplantation (SLT) represents one strategy to increase the supply of organs. Although outcomes after SLT and whole liver transplantation (WLT) are similar on average among pediatric recipients, we hypothesized that the relationship between graft type and outcomes may vary depending on patient, donor, and surgical characteristics.
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New Scientist
The key to organ transplants might lie in an unexpected place — the gut. Giving mice a fecal transplant made them more tolerant of a subsequent heart transplant.
The explanation could be that bacteria in the bowel help regulate the immune system and stop it from launching an attack against the unfamiliar transplanted tissue. Finding the mechanism could lead to new medicines to stop organ rejection, says Jonathan Bromberg at the University of Maryland. “It’s a way to turn down the volume knob on the immune system.”
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Nurse.org
Danielle LeVeck, DNP, ACNPC-AG, CCNS, CCRN, writes, "After burning out twice in my own career and fighting burnout on a weekly basis, I felt others could benefit from my own life experiences and knowledge of burnout research. When I was recently invited to give a presentation to ICU nurses regarding burnout, I asked my community of over 80,000 Instagram followers to help. The response was astounding. I received over 500 responses including stories and advice about nurse burnout. I plotted the hundreds of responses and stories from my followers to create my presentation and deliver real-life advice concerning the evasion of nurse burnout."
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The Conversation via Medical Xpress
Harriet Etheredge, Jean Botha and June Fabian write, "South Africa has a dire shortage of organ donors. This means that doctors struggle to find suitable donor organs for critically ill patients who would die without receiving a transplant.
About a year ago we made a tough call of our own: we could save a child's life by giving the child a liver transplant – but risked infecting the child with HIV in the process."
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NPR
Nursing is one of the fastest growing job fields in this country, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. It's also a job that is plagued by stereotypes — gender stereotypes in particular. Nearly 90 percent of all nurses today are women. Social science correspondent Shankar Vedantam wanted to figure out why there aren't more male nurses.
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American Journal of Transplantation
Patient Survival following Pancreas After Kidney transplantation (PAK) has been reported to be inferior to patient survival following Simultaneous Pancreas and Kidney transplantation (SPK). This analysis examines national data to further explore allograft (kidney and pancreas) and patient survival after PAK.
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