Facebook Helps Match Kidney Donors And Recipients
Donna Gordon Blankinship, HuffingtonPost
“Here’s another reason for holdouts to join the social media site Facebook: It’s a great place to find a kidney.
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Transplants
Smartphones used in life-saving procedures
Jonathan Sher, Canoe Technology
“Smartphones may become a must for London surgeons sent to retrieve organs for transplant surgery after a Blackberry Bold was used to secure a liver for a patient dying in London.
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The benefit of smart phone usage in liver organ procurement
Croome KP et al, Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare, 17(3)
A 56-year-old man was on the transplant list with end-stage liver disease secondary to hepatitis C when a donor liver became available at a location 545 km away. The procurement team, consisting of a senior and junior fellow, went on the retrieval, while the staff surgeon remained in the hospital with the recipient. At the time of organ procurement, a suspicious lesion was identified in the left lateral lobe. The transplant fellows took intraoperative pictures of the lesion with a smart phone and sent them to the staff surgeon for advice. A teleconsultation, facilitated by images sent from the smart phone, took place over the next 22 min.
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Indian, Pakistani hospitals sign agreement on transplantation
M. Waqar Bhatti, The News
“Global Hospitals, a chain of India’s fastest growing multi-organ transplantation hospitals, has reached an agreement with a private Pakistani hospital to carry out joint procedures in Pakistan, including liver and renal transplantations, cardiac surgeries and cancer treatment, etc., The News learnt on Saturday.
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Technology and counseling help improve drug compliance
Kevin B. O'Reilly, amednews
“An electronic monitoring system and personalized counseling can help patients improve their medication adherence rates, according to a new study.
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2nd Case Study – St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust and the Tweeting Kidney Patient
nhssm's posterous
“A few weeks ago on #nhssm @StGeorgesTrust told us about how the comms team had found a kidney patient on Twitter that was tweeting about their transplant and that after showing the Twitter feed to the consultant treating the kidney patient the consultant managed to help out with the patient’s diet.
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Use of an automated clinical management system improves outpatient immunosuppressive care following liver transplantation
Park ES et al, J Am Med Inform Assoc, 17(4)
OBJECTIVE:
Immunosuppressive therapy following transplantation, if not managed well, can lead to increased drug toxicity or rejection episodes. We investigated whether use of an automated clinical management system in our liver transplant program would improve clinical outcomes in managing transplant recipients’ immunosuppressive medications.
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Texting as a Health Tool for Teenagers
Pauline W. Chen, The New York Times
“This past month in the journal Pediatrics, researchers at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York published the results of a study showing that text messaging could significantly improve the rate of adherence among young liver transplant patients.
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