This issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics, Guest Edited by Darlene Lovasik, RN, MN, CCRN, CNRN, will feature such article topics as: Evaluation and Work-up for Transplant; Basic Immunology; Pharmacology; Liver, Pancreas, Kidney Transplants; Living Donor Kideny, Liver Transplants; Heart, Lung, Intestinal and Multivisceral Transplants; Complications After Transplant ; Patient Education; Psychosocial Concerns; Ethical Issue; Financial/Operational Considerations; Organ Donation.
1. Cover - p. 1 2. Contributors - p. 2 3. Contents - p. 3 4. Forthcoming Issues - p. 4 5. Transplantation: Past, Present, and Future - p. 5 6. A Review of Transplant Immunology - p. 6 7. Pharmacology of Immunosuppressive Medications in Solid Organ Transplantation - p. 9 8. Nursing Care of the Pancreas Transplant Recipient - p. 21 9. Liver Transplantation: Issues and Nursing Care Requirements - p. 32 10. An Overview of Intestine and Multivisceral Transplantation - p. 36 11. Heart Transplantation - p. 43 12. Lung Transplant - p. 49 13. Helping Hands: Caring for the Upper Extremity Transplant Patient - p. 61 14. Transplant Infectious Disease: Implications for Critical Care Nurses - p. 68 15. Index - p. 77
This issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics, Guest Edited by Darlene Lovasik, RN, MN, CCRN, CNRN, will feature such article topics as: Evaluation and Work-up for Transplant; Basic Immunology; Pharmacology; Liver, Pancreas, Kidney Transplants; Living Donor Kideny, Liver Transplants; Heart, Lung, Intestinal and Multivisceral Transplants; Complications After Transplant ; Patient Education; Psychosocial Concerns; Ethical Issue; Financial/Operational Considerations; Organ Donation.
1. Cover - p. 1 2. Contributors - p. 2 3. Contents - p. 3 4. Forthcoming Issues - p. 4 5. Transplantation: Past, Present, and Future - p. 5 6. A Review of Transplant Immunology - p. 6 7. Pharmacology of Immunosuppressive Medications in Solid Organ Transplantation - p. 9 8. Nursing Care of the Pancreas Transplant Recipient - p. 21 9. Liver Transplantation: Issues and Nursing Care Requirements - p. 32 10. An Overview of Intestine and Multivisceral Transplantation - p. 36 11. Heart Transplantation - p. 43 12. Lung Transplant - p. 49 13. Helping Hands: Caring for the Upper Extremity Transplant Patient - p. 61 14. Transplant Infectious Disease: Implications for Critical Care Nurses - p. 68 15. Index - p. 77
