Kidneys from old donors: tackling the organ shortage

Tackling the shortage of donor kidneys: how to use the best that we have.

Shortage of kidney donor is still a major limitation for renal transplantation programs. This review focuses on the emerging practices, adopted to increase transplant activities, of expanding the criteria for donor and recipient selection without exposing the recipient to the drawbacks of a graft with inadequate nephron mass. Expanding the donor pool inevitably led to consideration for kidney t...

Organ transplants from living donors.

A. Survey of Transplantation Techniques The kidney is one of the few organs which can successfully be transplanted from a living donor with current techniques. Since a healthy donor can function satisfactorily with a single kidney, the removal of one of them for transplantation does not significantly endanger live.1,2,3 Removal, or substantial partial removal, of other organs, such a the heart,...

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Physician as Healer, Leader and Partner: Tackling the Nursing Shortage.

CONTEXT Physicians have been notably silent on the nursing shortage in spite of articles that have suggested that physician behavior is one of the causes of job dissatisfaction among professional nurses. In addition to the role of healer, the physicians of the Colorado Permanente Medical Group (CPMG) are expected to have the additional responsibilities of being both leaders in health care and s...

Could the organ shortage ever be met?

The organ shortage is commonly presented as having a clear solution, increase the number of organs donated and the problem will be solved. In the light of the Northern Ireland Assembly's consultation on moving to an opt-out organ donor register this article focuses on the social factors and complexities which impact strongly on both the supply of, and demand for, transplantable organs. Judging ...