Beating the tissue shortage

The llhirsing Shortage Clondmies As Facnily Shortage Grows

O The main reasons for the lack of faculty to meet the demand for more nurses include the increased age of the current faculty and the declining number of years ieft to teach, expected increases in facuity retirements, less compensation for academic teaching than positions in clinical areas for master's-prepared nurses, and finaiiy, not enough master's and doctoral-prepared nurses to fiii the n...

Robotic tissue tracking for beating heart mitral valve surgery

The rapid motion of the heart presents a significant challenge to the surgeon during intracardiac beating heart procedures. We present a 3D ultrasound-guided motion compensation system that assists the surgeon by synchronizing instrument motion with the heart. The system utilizes the fact that certain intracardiac structures, like the mitral valve annulus, have trajectories that are largely con...

The BCG Shortage

In 2014, I was on the Board of Directors of the Society of Urologic Oncology (SUO) when Merck announced having shortages of Tice strain Bacillus Calmette Guerin (BCG), a critical “drug” for treating intermediate and particularly high risk non-muscle invasive (NMI) urothelial cancer (UC) of the bladder, including carcinoma-in-situ (CIS) and high-grade (HG), stage Ta and T1 disease after transure...

The drug shortage crisis.

The Black Organ and Tissue Donor Shortage: a Review of the Literature

On April 16, 1999, the Department of Health and Human Services and the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) announced that the number of organ donors increased 5.6 percent in 1998, the first substantial increase since 1995. Donation increases between 1997 and 1998 were substantial for whites (up 6.6 percent from 4,139 to 4,410 donors) and Hispanics (up 7.8 percent from 552 to 595 donors). Ho...