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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Organ Procurement"”.
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Clinical Text De-identification Using Large Language Models: Insights from Organ Procurement Data
… to the de-identification of clinical notes from Organ Procurement Organization (OPO) records, leveraging advanced natural language processing (NLP) methodologies. Specifically, we employ in-context learning using large language models (LLMs) to effectively identify and remove protected health …
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Modeling Human-Informed Variables in Medical Data
… data extraction from human-notes for enhancing organ procurement decision processes.
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Overcoming religious and cultural obstacles to organ donation : a rights-based approach
The transplantation of human tissue, cells and organs has saved and improved the lives of hundreds of thousands of individuals who suffer from organ failure. Advancements in organ transplant technologies have resulted in an increased demand for viable organs for transplantation - a demand which …
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Organ Donation in the United States
Introduction: The demand for donor organs far exceeds the number of donors. Approximately 18 people in the United States die every day waiting for an organ transplant. The purpose of this capstone is to describe the demographic characteristics of organ donors, recipients and waitlist populations in …
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An Examination of the Bio-Philosophical Literature on the Definition and Criteria of Death: When is Dead Dead and Why Some Donation After Cardiac Death Donors Are Not
… the question of whether a particular method of organ procurement known as Donation After Cardiac Death procures organs from the newly dead or from the imminently dying. Since the normative rules that guide transplantation require that one may not be killed for or by the removal of one's organs …
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Second thoughts about double effect.
… and DDE-based critiques of a novel method of organ procurement after death by cardiac criteria known as Thoraco-Abdominal Normothermic Regional Perfusion are unsuccessful.
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Rethinking Death and Donation: Mediating Death at the End of Life in the Wake of Brain Death's Failings
… dead, then the removal of their unpaired vital organs for transplantation is the direct cause of their deaths. The aim of this dissertation is to examine and evaluate the social, legal, medical, and philosophical problems inherent in the current social policy allowing for organ donation under …
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Ensemble machine learning to predict family consent for organ donation
… is ever increasing disparity between number of organs needed for transplantation and numbers available for donation to save lives. As a result, thousands of people die every year waiting for organs. Therefore, it is now more important than ever before to take serious actions to decrease this …
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A 23-year retrospective review of heart transplant donor and recipient referrals to Groote Schuur hospital between 1997 and 2019
… Africa faces numerous challenges related to organ scarcity and unequal access to advanced heart therapy. There is an urgent need to analyse the current transplant referral pathway to optimise equitable access to transplantation. Objectives. To provide an audit of heart transplant referrals to …
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Perceptions of Family Members of Cadaveric Organ Donors Towards Selected Issues of the Organ Donation Process
<p>Families of organ donors have faced a deeply emotional experience. These individuals have not only experienced the loss of a family member, they have also consented to donate their family member's organs. The purpose of this study was to determine from a donor family perspective how the organ …
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Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behaviors of the General Public Regarding Organ Donation
… of choice for many conditions has become organ transplantation. The list of transplantable tissues and organs has continued to grow, thus, the list of those awaiting transplants has also been growing. In contrast, the number of organ donors has not increased over the past 10 years. A …
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An Analysis of the Differences in Preemptive Kidney Transplantation Between Blacks and Whites
… 31, 2003 (n = 10,067) from any of the 11 organ procurement regions in the United States. </p> <p><strong>Results.</strong> Whites were more likely to receive a PKT (p<0.05). Females were 23% more likely to receive a preemptive kidney transplant as males. Those without hypertension as the …
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Cardiac Organogenesis: 3D Bioscaffolds, Bioenergetics and Regeneration
Each year the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) reports an increase in patients requiring an organ transplant without an increase in available donor organs, leading to a transplant gap that continues to widen. Over 70% of donor hearts are deemed unsuitable for transplantation …
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Etablierung und klinische Anwendung der 31P-Kernspinresonanzspektroskopie an Nierentransplantaten zur präoperativen Evaluierung der Organqualität im Vergleich zum klinischen Bild im postoperativen Verlauf
… zur Bestimmung der Organqualität vor Nierentransplantation beschrieben. Es ist das Ziel dieser Arbeit, die 31P-MRS auf ihre Anwendungsmöglichkeit zu überprüfen. Hierfür wurden anfänglich Messungen an Schweinenieren mit der Oberflächenspektroskopie durchgeführt. Da …
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Mechanisms of Improved Renal Function Following Normothermic Ex-vivo Kidney Perfusion Preservation of Grafts Severely Damaged by Prolonged Warm Ischemia
Normothermic ex-vivo kidney perfusion (NEVKP) is an emerging technique for renal graft preservation. We investigated whether NEVKP could improve early function of severely injured donation-after-cardiovascular death (DCD) grafts to reduce the incidence of delayed graft function (DGF). First, we …
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Heart failure and associated structural and functional remodeling: assessment employing various magnetic resonance imaging methodologies.
… and LifeSource (the Upper Midwest, a non-profit organ procurement organization). In addition, the mechanical activation due to cardiac pacing from the right ventricular apex was uniquely characterized in a case study of an isolated human heart using MRI, as cardiac pacing from the right …
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Actitud del médico de cuidado intensivo frente a la donación y transplate de órganos en institución de Bogotá
La Ley 1805 de 2016 establece disposiciones cruciales sobre donación de órganos y trasplantes, con el propósito de satisfacer equitativa y transparentemente la demanda nacional de órganos y tejidos. La ley presume la donación de órganos para toda persona adulta de nacionalidad colombiana al …