A clinician, performing under the guidelines of United Network of Organ Sharing, that identifies the motives for living donation in order to eliminate chance of coercion, obligation, pressure or financial remuneration.
What is the Independent Living Donor Advocate?
100
This person evaluates the financial resources a patient has for travel, lodging, prescription and other expenses and helps to allocate resources that might alleviate the financial burden of transplantation.
What is a social worker?
100
Here in Colorado due to the altitude patient's are encourage to use sunscreen and protect themselves from the sun due to a sun sensitivity that is a side effect of what medication.
What is Prednisone?
100
What fruit should post transplant patients avoid due to an interaction with their immunosuppressant medications?
What is Grapefruit… May also accept Star fruit and Pomegranate juice
100
This medication is used for both induction therapy at the time of transplant and the reversal of steroid resistant rejection:
What is …Anti-thymocyte globulin (Thymoglobulin®)
200
Percent of deaths that are potential deceased donor.
What is 2%?
200
Average number of years a kidney recipient waits on the list for a deceased donor in this region.
What is 3-5 years?
200
A post transplant should obstain from receiving this within the first 6 months of transplant.
What is a vaccination?
200
This disease can reoccur 3 weeks to 3 months post liver transplant.
What is Hepatitis B or Hepatitis C?
200
The administration of Anti-thymocyte globulin (Thymoglobulin®) should be initiated one hour after premedication with acacetaminophen(Tylenol®), corticosteroids, and what other medication:
What is….diphenhydramine (Benadryl®)
300
BMI criteria to be a living donor.
What is a BMI of 30 or less?
300
Total bilirubin, Creatinine, and INR are used to calculate this all important liver score.
What is MELD (model for end-stage liver disease)?
300
This medication can not be taken before morning labs to ensure that the lab is a true trough.
What is prograf?
300
Urine leaks, Acute Tubular Necrosis, uretral obstruction, infections and lymphoceles are all potential complications during which phase of transplant.
What is the postoperative phase?
300
Valgancyclovir (Valcyte®) is given prophylacticly post kidney transplant to prevent what virus from occurring:
What is CMV or cytomegalovirus
400
Diabetes, Hypertension, Kidney disease, unstable mental health condition, and active cancer.
What are contraindications to living donation?
400
Number of times a patient is evaluated to maintain listing in a 5 year period.
What is five?
400
Time that patient's are required to stay within the Denver area post transplant to ensure they can attend multiple follow up visits.
What is one month?
400
Complication that occurs in 4-24% of transplants.
What is Diabetes?
400
If the transplant patient you are caring for is experiencing an intense headache and tremors what medication is likely contributing to these adverse effects?
What is tacrolimus or Prograf®
500
Time from cross clamp in donor to first anastamosis in recipient.
What is cold ischemic time?
500
Pueblo, Colorado Springs, Durango, Billings, Rapid City, Grand Junction, and Garden City.
What are the outreach clinic locations?
500
The three most common medications that are included in a post patient's long term regimen.
Prograf, Prednisone, and Myfortic.
500
This is done if patient is suspected to have humoral rejection or Hemolytic Uremic syndrome. It is done to remove pre-formed antibodies.
What is plasmapheresis?
500
Which antirejection medication can never be given at the same time as antacids and should not be crushed before administration?