Kidney Transplant COM/150 June 6‚ 2010 Axia College of University of Phoenix Kidney disease has become more prevalent over the years‚ one in nine Americans has chronic kidney disease‚ resulting in the need for a kidney transplant. Kidney failure is caused by variety of factors resulting in damage of the nephrons‚ which are the most important functioning unit of the kidneys. Kidney failure can be broken down into three groups: acute‚ chronic‚ end-stage. Once kidney failure is irreversible
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The objective of this research paper is to discuss the history‚ risks ‚ necessary treatments and benefits of kidney transplants. Kidney transplantation is the organ transplant of a kidney into a patient with end-stage renal disease. In the Early 1900’s European doctors attempted to save patients dying of renal failure by transplanting kidneys from various animals‚ including monkeys‚ pigs and goats. None of the recipients lived for more than a few days. And In the late 1940s and early 1950s
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of choice for many people with severe heart failure (HF) who have severe symptoms despite maximum medical therapy. Survival among cardiac transplant recipients has improved as a result of improvements in treatments that suppress the immune system and prevent infection. Definition A heart transplant‚ or a cardiac transplantation‚ is a surgical transplant procedure performed on patients with end-stage heart failure or severe coronary artery disease Indications The general indications for
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Transplant surgery can be a very incredible topic. The act of exchanging organs or even body parts to help or even save another persons life is truly amazing. Transplant surgery can save many lives without even affecting the donor at all. Organs can come from any body whether it be deceased‚ alive‚ or brain dead. New studies are even trying to get animal organs into humans who need them. The value of having transplant surgery weighs more than not being able to benefit or save someone ’s life. There
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with you tonight" the young boy asks the other boy? The response‚ "No‚ my dad has me this weekend‚ maybe next week." We live in a world where over half of the marriages end in divorce. This is truly a confounding issue that faces us today. The moral and ethical ramifications brought about by such a change in family organization will only begin to show in the years to come. Some of these issues are addressed in both Laurie Abraham’s "Divorced Father‚" and Barbara Whitehead’s "Women and the Future
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believed. However‚ instead of letting our healthy organs be eaten by insects and decomposing it we can try to save a person in need. Based on donate life America‚ an organizational team who support and encourage people to sign up to be an organ donor and according to their information and research there are more than 117‚294 people of all ages and gender currently on the wait list for an organ transplant in United states concurrently. “The process of organ donation can save as many as eight lives through
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What is an Organ Broker? A poor man is desperate to make money to feed his family in an undeveloped country. A rich man is sick and needs a kidney transplant in order to survive. He is willing to pay whatever it takes to save his life. A greedy man acts as a middleman‚ or broker‚ between the two men and goes home with a profit of thousands of dollars. Organ brokers are most common for organizing kidney transplants and other non-essential organs. However‚ occasionally organ brokers will bribe
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To:Operations Manager From: Lead Surgeon Date: September 13‚ 2012 Subject: Heart Transplant This evening of September 13‚ 2012 at 0900hrs we received word of an available heart. After further review of each matching candidates‚ we have decided that the 12 year young lady named Lisa will be receiving this heart. If Lisa does not receive this heart she has a high chance of not even making it to her 20s. She has suffered many health issues in her short life due to various viral infections
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Criteria for making a medical decision for someone who may or may not be competent‚ is first to find out if they are competent. If they aren’t do they have Advance directives‚ living will‚ appointed POA of healthcare? You need to keep in mind their religious beliefs and wishes so that you don’t impose your own beliefs on the decisions for their healthcare. POA for Healthcare‚ is someone you designate; “your health agent will have the authority to make life and death decisions for you according
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This paper examines some of the ethical dilemmas posed to the medical community by the practice of organ donation after cardiac death (DCD) and whether it violates any of the basic ethical principles of medicine. Cardiac death can only be declared on the basis of cardiopulmonary criteria of permanent cessation of circulatory and respiratory function and not on the basis of neurological criteria of irreversible loss of all functions of the entire brain‚ which is used to declare brain death. In the
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