- Отрасли: Government; Health care
- Number of terms: 396
- Number of blossaries: 0
- Company Profile:
HRSA is the primary U.S. Federal agency for improving access to health care services for people who are uninsured, isolated, or medically vulnerable.
Transplant candidates are "sensitized" if their immune system makes antibodies against a general donor pool. Sensitization usually occurs as a consequence of pregnancy, blood transfusions, or previous transplantation. The degree of sensitization is measured by panel reactive antibody (PRA). Highly sensitized patients are less likely to match with available donors and more likely to reject an organ than unsensitized patients.
Industry:Health care
Transplantation of an animal organ into a human. Although xenotransplantation is highly experimental, many scientists view it as an eventual solution to the shortage of human organs.
Industry:Health care
Transplantation of an organ to a site different from where it would ordinarily be located on the recipient's body.
Industry:Health care
Typically, a statistical term used in survival analysis to indicate an observation in which the outcome of interest has not yet occurred. For example, in a graft survival analysis, a transplant with a functioning graft may be censored at the last follow-up date because the graft is still functioning. Mathematically, censored observations are included in the analysis up to the point in time at which they are censored.
Industry:Health care
UNOS staff person who serves as a resource regarding OPTN information, policies and procedures to members in designated Regions. RAs assist Regional Councillors with planning and conducting regional meetings (and drafting agendas, minutes and correspondence), coordinating regional communications and ensuring regional activities and issues are documented and addressed appropriately. RAs are available to answer questions regarding regional representation, and routinely provide information and materials on the following topics:
* Responsibilities of Regional Councillors and Associate Councillors
* Responsibilities of Regional Administrators
* Directory of regional members by category and state
* Roster of regional representatives to national committees
* Regional guidelines (if applicable)
* Member voting status sheet
* Previous regional meeting minutes and regional issues
* Previous Board of Directors' actions affecting regions.
Industry:Health care
When a living person gives an organ or a portion of an organ for use in a transplant. A kidney, or portion of a liver, lung, pancreas or intestine may be donated. See also Living Donor, Organ Donation.
Industry:Health care
When one of the following conditions is met and sustained for a minimum of five (5) minutes:
* Newborn up to 28 days old, with a systolic blood pressure less than 60 mm Hg, OR
* 29 days old up to 12 months old, with a systolic blood pressure less than 70 mm Hg, OR
* 1 year old up to 10 years old, with a systolic blood pressure less than 70 mm Hg, plus 2 times the age of the patient in years, not to exceed 79 mm Hg, OR
* 11 years or older, with a systolic blood pressure less than 80 mm Hg, OR when the oxygen saturation is less than 80% at any age.
Industry:Health care
When one organism possesses cells with more than one genetic background, as in transplant recipients.
Industry:Health care
When organs are donated, the host OPO accesses the national transplant computer system through the Internet, or contacts the Organ Center at UNOS. Information about the donor is entered into the system and a donor/recipient match is run for each donated organ. The resulting match list of potential recipients is ranked according to criteria defined in that organ's allocation policy (i.e. blood type, tissue type, size of the organ, medical urgency of the patient as well as time already spent on the waiting list and distance between donor and recipient). Each organ has its own specific criteria.
Using the match list of potential recipients, the host OPO's organ procurement coordinator or the Organ Placement Specialist in the Organ Center contacts the transplant center of the highest ranked patient, based on policy criteria, to be offered the organ. If the organ is turned down, the next potential recipient's transplant center on the match list is contacted until the organ is placed. Once the organ is accepted for a patient, transportation arrangements are made and transplant surgery is scheduled. See also, Wait List, Wait List Registration, Waiting Time.
Industry:Health care
