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Current strategies for living donor kidney transplantation / Chrysanthi Avrami ; Anastasia Liossatou, editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Avrami, Chrysanthi, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kidneys.
- Nurse's Role.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (57 pages)) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Hergiswil, Switzerland, : European Dialysis and Transplant Nurses Association/European Renal Care Association (EDTNA/ERCA), 2021.
- Contents:
- Reviewers
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Raymond Vanholder.
- CHAPTER 1. Definition of living donor kidney transplantation
- Chrysanthi Avrami, EDTNA/ERCA Project Leader.
- Introduction
- Background of living donor kidney transplantation
- Living donor kidney transplantation defined
- Types of living kidney donation
- Living donor candidate assessment
- The COVID-19 pandemic
- Conclusion
- References
- CHAPTER 2. Why is living kidney donation important?
- Benefits of LDKT
- Risks related to living kidney donation
- LDKT awareness and promotion
- Educational programmes to promote LDKT
- Further Reading
- CHAPTER 3. Strategies for living donor kidney transplantation
- Julio Pascual and Beatriz Domínguez-Gil.
- The most important strategy is to promote the indication
- Expanding information on the risks and the advantages to patients and families
- Living kidney transplantation and COVID-19
- CHAPTER 4. Strategies for expanding the living donor pool
- Beatriz Domínguez-Gil and Julio Pascual.
- Informing patients and families about living kidney donation
- Overcoming technical barriers to living kidney donation
- Removing financial disincentives to living donation
- CHAPTER 5. The role of the clinical nurse specialist as part of a multidisciplinary team in the management of living donor kidney transplantation
- Daènne Scheuter-van Oers.
- Role of a CNS for the management of LDKT in a multidisciplinary team
- The multidisciplinary team role in transplantation/donation and identifying living donors
- COVID-19 and LDKT activities
- CHAPTER 6. Psychological aspects of care in living donor kidney transplantation
- Janette Moran and Chloe Miller.
- Assessment
- Intervention pre-donation
- Follow-up/long-term factors
- Donor:
- Recipient:
- COVID-19:
- Implications for Practice
- CHAPTER 7. Ethical and legal issues related to living kidney donation
- Irene Salvador-Rosés, Sandra Torres-Sierra, and Teresa Pont Castellana.
- Ethical issues
- Legal issues
- COVID-19
- References.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
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