Donor Care & GOL
A synonym for a Donor Care Center
What is a Donor Care Unit?
What is induction immunosuppression?
This advocate works independently from the clinical team to ensure donors are free from pressure, coercion, or financial influence.
Who is the Independent Living Donor Advocate
This social determinant includes lack of income, high medication costs, and difficulty paying rent.
What is economic instability?
This is the local non-profit OPO/tissue/eye recovery bank in the Philadelphia area.
What is the Gift of Life Donor Program?
This medication is commonly started at a high dose in the operating room and slowly decreased over time after transplant.
What are steroids (like methylprednisolone or prednisone)?
This surgical event marks the beginning of warm ischemic time, when blood flow to the kidney stops.
What is cross-clamp of the renal artery.
This term describes how patients from marginalized groups may face compouding disadvantages – such as race and substance abuse – that further limit access.
What is the “double jeopardy effect”?
This is the goal of organ optimization.
(Hint: DMG)
What are Donor Management Goals?
This is a drug class that includes tacrolimus and cyclosporine and requires troughlevel monitoring.
What are calcineurin inhibitors?
In 2024, this percentage approximated this much the share of Penn Kidney transplants coming living donors.
What is about 50%
This assessment in the social determinants of health screening looks at mental health, substance use, adherence history, support and financial stability.
What is the psychosocial assessment?
These are the two ways that solid organs are taken for donation.
(Hint: Donation after...)
What are: Donation after brain death (DBD), and Donation after circulatory death (DCD)
This is the firstline medication used to prevent pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia (PJP or PCP pna) after transplant.
What is Bactrim (trimethoprimsulfamethoxazole)?
Post-donation, DONORS must avoid this entire class of over-the-counter medications because they can harm a single kidney.
What are NSAIDS?
These "red flags" could cause patients to miss appointments or struggle to follow medication schedule.
What are limited access to transportation or limited support. (Any one of these is correct)
This is the phone number to call Gift of Life Donor Program.
What is: 1-800-KIDNEY-1?
This drug class should generally be avoided after transplant.
What are NSAIDs?
This type of paried kidney eschange donation allows a donor to give now while a listed family member can receive a kidney later, with up to six individuals designated.
What is the voucher program?
Transportation, housing stability, food access, and insurance status are examples of these non-medical factors nurses routinely screen for in transplant patients.
These non-medical factors are referred to as:
Social Determinants of Health
OR
Health-related Social Needs