PURPOSE OF REVIEW Pediatric liver transplantation is a challenging and exciting field for all healthcare providers involved with children who have end-stage liver disease. Graft and patient survival continue to improve due to improvements in medical, surgical, and anesthetic management, organ availability, immunosuppression, and identification and treatment of postoperative complications. This ...

OBJECTIVE To identify aspects of provision of total joint replacements which could be improved. DESIGN 10 month prospective study of hospital admissions and hospital costs for patients whose total joint replacement was cancelled. SETTING Information and Waiting List Unit, Musgrave Park Regional Orthopaedic Service, Belfast. PATIENTS 284 consecutive patients called for admission for total ...

BACKGROUND The effects of lung transplantation on the survival and quality of life in children with cystic fibrosis are uncertain. METHODS We used data from the U.S. Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Patient Registry and from the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network to identify children with cystic fibrosis who were on the waiting list for lung transplantation during the period from 1992 th...

It was anticipated that increase uptake of Private Health Insurance (PHI) would reduce demand on public sector surgical waiting lists. The best measure of changed demand is the comparison of the actual cases added to that projected given previous trends in PHI uptake. Detailed Victorian data is available up to 2000-1. The total waiting list has varied little, reflecting significant decreases in...

OBJECTIVES This study evaluated the waiting list for elective electrical cardioversion (ECV) for persistent atrial fibrillation (AF), focusing on when and why procedures were postponed. We compared the effects of management of the waiting list conducted by physicians versus management by nurse practitioners (NPs) and we evaluated the safety of our anticoagulating policy by means of bleeding or ...

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The management of a patient in the peri-transplantation period is highly challenging, and it even more difficult while on transplantation waitlist. Keeping alive during this involves managing complications liver disease preventing disease's progression. Based pre-transplantation etiology type failure, there difference protocol. current review divided into different sections, which include: unde...