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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"organ donor"”.
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Attitudes towards organ donor advocacy among Swedish intensive and critical care nurses.
… persons who, by their death, become potential organ donors (POD). A consequence might be that end-of-life care continues into after-death care in order to facilitate organ donation (OD). In this situation, the concept of organ donor advocacy is critical. Aim: The overall objective was to …
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Do You Want to Be an Organ Donor? Why Question Order and Straightlining Matter
… to investigate a possible means of increasing donor registration rates, as doing so can save lives by increasing the number of registered organ donors. Many Motor Vehicle Departments (MVDs) ask a series of probing health and legal questions prior to asking visitors about registering as an organ …
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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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A atuação dos doadores emergentes no âmbito da cooperação internacional: uma análise do caso brasileiro no Programa Mundial de Alimentos
… deepening of relations between Brazil and that organ of the UN System, which resulted, among other things, in the possibility that Brazilian programmes aimed at promoting food security and nutrition were replicated internationally. All this shift happened after approval by the WFP Executive …
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Delayed graft function in renal transplantation : aetiology and impact on graft outcome
… with decreased graft survival. With current organ shortages organ donor criteria have been expanded to match the shortage. It is thus imperative that we should understand the mechanisms of graft damage which may result in delayed graft function. A better understanding of the relationship …
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The physiological changes of circulatory death with respect to organ donation
Donation of organs after circulatory death (DCD) is re-emerging as an important source of organs for transplantation worldwide, and in the United Kingdom DCD donors comprise 39% of all deceased organ donors. However, organs from DCD organ donors work less well after transplantation than those from …
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Chagas disease, need and progress made in implementing donor blood screening in the United States.
… cost for the implementation of a blood donor screening program for T. cruzi in the United States.\r\nResults: There have been fifteen documented cases of acute Chagas disease in the United States, ten of which were associated with blood product transfusions or solid organ transplants. …
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Transfer Beyond Transplantation: Exploring the Lived Experiences and Embodied Geographies of Organ Recipients
… geographies of individuals who have received an organ transfer. While geographers have long been interested in questions of the body, chronic illness and (dis)ability, and health, there has been limited engagement with the topic of organ transfer and the experience of receiving a new organ(s). …
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Knowledge and attitudes of undergraduate nurses towards organ donation and transplantation in a selected campus of a college in the Eastern Cape
South Africa has a low organ donation and transplantation rate despite the availability of medical professionals with the expertise to perform such transplants. This can be attributed to various factors, such as knowledge and attitudes towards organ donation and transplantation. Despite the efforts …
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Understanding adolescent organ and tissue donation decision-making using a qualitative descriptive design: A-DONOR study
The critical shortage of organ donors is a national health crisis. In the US, there is a discrepancy between favorable attitudes toward organ donation registration and willingness to donate organs. Though educational interventions increase knowledge and positive attitudes toward donation, this …
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Molecular Characterization and Inhibition of Antibodies Elicited Against Galactosyltransferase Knockout Pig Xenografts
… die every day while waiting for a transplantable organ. Moreover, at the end of 2014, nearly 130,000 additional individuals were still on the transplant waiting list. Xenotransplantation, the transplantation of cells and/or organs from a member of another species, is both a viable supplement for, …
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Enzymatic blood group conversion of human kidneys for transplantation
… barrier in transplantation, restricting organ donor-recipient matches to blood group compatible pairings only. Due to the chronic shortage of donor organs worldwide, novel strategies to remove ABO blood group restrictions are desperately needed to increase the number of kidney …
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A grounded theory study exploring critical care staff experiences of approaching relatives for organ donation
… staff experiences of approaching relatives for organ donation following the death of a patient. Background: The research was influenced by a startling statistic that reported an average 1,000 patients die each year on the transplant waiting list because no suitable organ donor was identified. …
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Can increasing surface credibility improve e-health intervention effectiveness?
… measurable health behaviour (registration as an organ donor). In this study 889 university students were exposed to a website promoting organ donation. Information on the site was assembled based on theoretical domain interviewing and current research into organ donation interventions. 336 …
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Investigating iPSC-Derived Macrophage Stimulation with Oxidised Low-Density Lipoprotein as an Effective In Vitro Model of Foam Cells in Atherosclerosis
… lipid content and macrophage and VSMC content of organ donor aortic samples across a range of tissue phenotypes to selected foam cell-rich samples that were used to generate single nuclei RNA-sequencing libraries. In order to compare gene profiles of in vivo foam cells to in vitro-generated foam …
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A grounded theory study of the issues and challenges that impact on transplant coordinators and their practice.
… in the next category - 'the role'. Recipient, donor family and transplant coordinator outcomes were addressed in the 'outcomes’ category. The basic social process – building relationships - explored the relationships that coordinators have with the health team and their client groups. Four …
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Using a communication approach to understand the antecedents of medical mistrust: Testing the ecological medical mistrust antecedents (EMMA) model
… & Cherry, 2017) and becoming a registered organ donor (Morgan, Stephenson, Harrison, Afifi, & Long, 2008). As a result, medical mistrust is a pervasive barrier that cuts across health contexts and topics; this makes addressing medical mistrust a critical step towards improving health …
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Changes in Water-Electrolyte Balance in Organ Donors with Brain Death and Their Correction in the Intensive Care Unit // Промени във водно-електролитното равновесие при органен донор с мозъчна смърт и корекцията им в интензивната клиника
… in the rest of the body. In approximately 80% of organ donors with brain death, damage to the posterior lobe of the pituitary gland is observed, leading to the development of diabetes insipidus with changes in water-electrolyte balance, hypovolemia, and circulatory instability. The lack of or …
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Characteristics of organ donors and logistics of organ procurement for short- and long-term outcomes in abdominal organ transplantation
Organ transplantation is a medical procedure in which a patient’s dysfunctional organ is replaced with a graft that is usually received from an organ donor. Solid- organ transplantation is the best treatment option especially in end-stage kidney and liver failure. Pancreas transplantation, on the …