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 A Guide to Your Health Care After Heart Transplantation
This pamphlet provides important information about care for patients and their families as they prepare for discharge from the hospital. Sections in the pamphlet include medications, lifestyle, routine screenings and examinations, understanding your emotions, your transplant team, and more!
You can download the Patient Education pamphlets for free on the ITNS website.
Hospital Use of Patient Education Pamphlets: If you would like to print copies of this patient education pamphlet for distribution at your hospital, we sell the print-ready file in the ITNS Online Store. The listing is to purchase unrestricted permission to photocopy or print a patient education handbook for educational use.
ITNS would like to thank CareDX, the makers of AlloMap®, for their generous contribution to this educational endeavor.
Job Seeker? Employer? Check out the ITNS Career Center for your next opportunity.
ITNS's purpose is to support the professional and educational needs of transplant nurses throughout their careers. You, our members, are a vital part of the transplant nursing community that cares for a special patient population and their families.
You can make a difference for your transplant nursing colleagues! Share with your friends the benefits of membership in ITNS and encourage them to join ITNS!
Medical Xpress
Ovarian tissue that was frozen a decade ago was implanted last week in a 25-year-old cancer survivor who hopes that reviving the tissue from suspended animation will allow her to start a family. The procedure — which involves myriad disciplines in medicine, cell biology and surgery — is known as an ovarian transplant and was performed at NYU Winthrop Hospital in Mineola, marking a series of "firsts."
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TechTarget
EHRs have been touted for their ability to make billing easier and more accurate, improve patient care, provide a foundation on which to conduct data analytics, and more. It may be time to add tracking the spread of infection throughout a hospital to the list of benefits of EHRs.
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The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
The current supply of acceptable donor lungs is not sufficient for the number of patients awaiting transplantation. This study hypothesized that ex vivo lung perfusion (EVLP) with targeted drug therapy would allow successful rehabilitation and transplantation of donation after circulatory death lungs exposed to 2 hours of warm ischemia.
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Business Standard
End Stage Kidney Disease (ESKD) is the stage when almost the entire kidney function is lost. Life-long dialysis or transplantation becomes mandatory for survival.
Kidney transplant is the best form of renal replacement therapy as it can improve the quality and longevity of life.
All the literature, national and international, have proven that transplantation is more cost-effective, affords a more normal lifestyle and improved survival.
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Advance Healthcare Network
Social by nature, curious by design and caring by desire, healthcare providers hold the important responsibility of our patient’s personal medical information in confidence. The hallmark attribute of the patient/nurse relationship is built on the belief and understanding of trust. In many respects a built trust of care that includes the privacy and confidentiality of a patients personal health information. The expansion of the electronic communication age has provided healthcare professionals the ability to work faster and with a greater degree of efficiency and accuracy.
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The New England Journal of Medicine
The pig heart is a candidate organ for xenotransplantation, but endogenous retroviruses (ERVs) in the pig genome can infect human cells in vitro, raising the specter of zoonotic infection. A recent report describes the generation of healthy pigs free of replication-competent ERVs.
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HealthLeadersMedia
I had the opportunity to moderate breakout sessions with more than 30 top nurse leaders from across the country at the HealthLeaders Media invitation-only Chief Nursing Officer Exchange Nov. 6–8 at the Omni Scottsdale Resort & Spa at Montelucia in Arizona.
The two major discussion topics this year were new models of care and the nurse of the future. Those are, indeed, some hefty subjects to tackle, and, as always, there was rich discussion and sharing of insights and solutions, which I'll be unpacking in the coming months. So, stay tuned!
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Transplantation
Whether a transplanted allograft is stably accepted, rejected, or achieves immunological tolerance is dependent on the frequency and function of alloreactive lymphocytes, making the identification and analysis of alloreactive T and B cells in transplant recipients critical for understanding mechanisms, and the prediction of allograft outcome. In animal models, tracking the fate of graft-reactive T and B cells allows investigators to uncover their biology and develop new therapeutic strategies to protect the graft. In the clinic, identification and quantification of graft-reactive T and B cells allows for the early diagnosis of immune reactivity and therapeutic intervention to prevent graft loss.
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American Journal of Transplantation
The relationship between healthcare utilization before and after liver transplantation (LT), and its association with center characteristics, is incompletely understood. This was a retrospective cohort study of 34 402 adult LTs between 2002 and 2013 using Vizient inpatient claims data linked to the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) database.
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Medical Tourism Magazine
Patient care is suffering due to the lack of nurses in hospital units. According to a study by the Journal of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, 46.8 percent of all nurses made a medication error due to a high patient to nurse ratios. This same study recommends increasing the number of nurses and adjusting the workload in the emergency department to enhance patient safety.
While the shortage of nurses has been a constant problem, it is currently reaching critical proportions with no relief in sight.
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American Journal of Transplantation
Changes in heart transplant (HT) donor and recipient demographics may influence the incidence of primary graft dysfunction (PGD). We conducted a retrospective study to evaluate PGD incidence, trends, and associated risk factors by analyzing consecutive adult patients who underwent HT between January 2009 and December 2014 at our institution. Patients were categorized as having PGD using the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation defined criteria.
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