Organ transplant

discussed in the paper is the scarcity of organ donations worldwide. The literature examined some variables that affect signing an organ donor card. Some of the variables that the researcher identified that may affect SODC are: spirituality, purpose in life and attitudes toward donation as some factors that affect the signing of donor card. This research affects nursing practice by bringing awareness to a solvable problem, which is the scarcity of organ donations. The research conclusions can be…

This position led to the most difficult challenges of his adult life. After taking the position he started making strides towards human transplants. His team of surgeons worked super hard researching and put in years of work in the laboratory to achieve their goals. The hardest transplant that the team ever performed was an animal to human transplant between a chimpanzee and a dying man. The heart continued to beat for a total of 90 minutes before it stopped due to rejection from the body.…

What is one of the dirtiest locations of your house? You thought of the bathroom, right? But did you know that carpets and area rugs are home to many more critters? Research by Philip Tierno, Jr., Ph.D., microbiologist, immunologist, and author of The Secret Life of Germs, has conducted research which indicates that your carpet and rugs are a lot dirtier than you think. In fact, these areas have around 200,000 bacteria per square inch. Eew, that's about 4,000 times dirtier than your toilet.…

restore their metabolism after transplantation. This discovery has given a new way and hope for researchers to heal the human hearts after heart attacks. This research started with the problem of how although stem cells have worked well in repairing organs after injury, they have not helped the heart heal itself because very few of the transplanted cells survive because before the cells have a chance to get attached to the wall of…

infections or heart attacks. People that have severe heart failures are given medicines, but if they do not recover well enough, they require to have a heart transplant. People who require heart transplants use artificial hearts until there is a sutible donator’s heart available. The artificial heart is then removed during the heart transplant. However, if there a…

In Unit 9 Discussion 1, we are asked to select a healthcare organization and propose 1 or 2 evidence-based recommendations for implementing IT innovations. The organization I selected is a Military Treatment Facility, Kimbrough Ambulatory Care Center (KACC), MD. The innovation that I would recommend for improvement is the requirement for Health Artifact Imaging System (HAIMS) that scans bulk paper medical records and turn it into electronic files. The conversions into electronic files allows…

in the medical field as he completed the first ever heart transplant. This man who grew up in rural Karoo and whose father was a minister managed to do the first successful heart transplant in 1967. Tim Marcus’s interest in cardiology developed when he delivered a baby that soon died of an incurable heart disease. While studying his postgraduate in The United States, he met Norman Shumway, a future fellow surgeon for the heart transplant and Richard Lower who did a majority of the research for…

Organ donation has been an ethical debate for a long time. Organ donation is a process of giving away your organs to another person in need by an organ transplant. An organ transplant is an operation that puts a healthy organ from your body into another person’s body. One donor can save as many as 50 people. The organs that can be donated include the internal organs like the kidneys, heart, liver, pancreas, intestines and other organs like the skin, bone, bone marrow, cornea and many tissues.…

Human Organs be legalized? Canada today is a country where hundreds of people die waiting for an organ transplant, according to Michael Friscolanti’s article, “Will sell organs for cash”. There have been laws in Canada that object the purchase of human organs, but surely do not have any objection with the donation of organs (Friscolanti, “Will sell organs for cash”). The selling of human organs should be allowed at certain scenarios to have less people die waiting for an organ transplant but…

The process of completing a transplant of human organs from one individual to another is very complex on every level. There are many touch points or intersections where critical data, such as blood type, can be verified. Any piece of information that is not an exact match should give pause to the process until there is no doubt that all of the checks are in place to secure a viable organ and recipient are matched and successfully transplanted. Healthcare entities that practice similar…