Essays on Organ Transplantation

Xenotransplantation: Article Analysis

Xenotransplantation: Article Analysis Xenotransplantation involves the transfer of organs, tissues, or cells from animals to humans. The practice has been a point of focus for years. Several experiments and studies are being done in an effort to make it as safe and beneficial to human beings as possible. It began due to the need to supplement and provide an alternative to human organ transplantation. However, there are health, ethical, legal and cultural implications that must be considered. The paper explores the topic through a focus on its definition, a summary of the article, and an analysis of my views ...

Worries about a decline in the birth rate are nothing new, at least in many developed nations. As early as 1909, Hoffman made it perfectly clear that a love for babies was not the reason that some in the U.S. fretted over the declining number of births. Rather, it was concern over the decreasing rate of births among “native white married women” while the “rate of reproduction [was] materially higher among the foreign element” (p. 676). Similar concerns are in evidence today in places such as Israel, where the comparatively high rate of births among the Arab population has ...

Organ donation and transplantation are notable hallmarks in medicine. Medical advancements are significantly confronting complicated conditions through organ transplantation and related practices such as grafting. Over the years, the procedures have grown and developed. However, organ donation and transplantation are surrounded by various ethical and legal issues. This paper discusses these issues in detail and elicits the relationship between them. The analysis is in line with both the support and opposition of organ donation and transplantation, particularly in Australia. The paper will also provide my personal stance and the final ethical decision by leveraging several theoretical perspectives – deontology, consequentialism, ...

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Introduction Cirrhosis is caused by liver injury that results in fibrogenesis and inflammation. These problems result in collapse of liver structures and significant distortion of hepatic vascular structure. This distortion leads to elevated resistance to portal blood flow as well as portal hypertension. Moreover, hepatic synthetic dysfunction is also caused as a result of these problems. Clinically, liver cirrhosis is considered as an end-stage disease that could result in death until liver transplantation is performed (Tsochatzis, Bosch, & Burroughs, 2014). Liver cirrhosis is an important cause of morbidity and mortality in most of the developed countries. In ...

Debate whether John Q’s action of taking 11 people as hostages in return for the hospital accommodating his demand was moral and ethical – vigilante or caring father. John Q’s action of taking 11 people as hostages in return for the hospital accommodating his demand was immoral and unethical, exhibiting actions of a vigilante, yet caring father. From the incidents shown in the movie, it was apparent that the spouses were actually running out of time and immediate surgery of a compatible heart needs to be found . Yet, as revealed the health insurance coverage of John Q from ...

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Immunotherapy in Treating Human Cancer

The immune system of our body is a complex network of tissues, cells, and organs that act mutually to protect our body from unknown foreign trespassers. It recognizes the harmful particles entering the body and facilitates the destruction of those particles in order to shield the body system from any ailment. Due to any complexity or disturbance often the immune system targets the wrong particle considering it as a dangerous particle and this anomaly of the immune system may result in various autoimmune diseases like arthritis, allergies, malignancies, and AIDS (Understanding the ...

Following the case study of "healing and autonomy," while observing the Christian narrative; it involves a family of four. There are grappling with their son's acute illness that is kidney failure. The problem can only now be addressed through an organ transplant whereby in case it fails, he will succumb to the disease. The family comprises of parents Joanne and Mike and the two boys who are twins Samuel and James aged eight years. In the case, a spiritual conundrum and health care have emerged, and it puts the family in a dilemma in deciding what to do for ...

INTRODUCTION

Modern science and technology has made fascinating discoveries and incredible innovations. There have been amazing advances in all areas and disciplines from engineering and robotics to science and medicine. It is the latter that has made some of the greatest advances and innovations. Human beings learn more and more everyday about how to treat illnesses and prevent diseases. They have also learned so much about the how the human body works; right down to the genes that make all living things what they are. It is possible today for scientists to understand how genes affect traits and that sometimes ...

Human Dignity and the Organ Trade

Organ donation is a gracious act that adds more years to a sick individual’s life as it allows them to live a longer and healthier life. Those with end-stage heart, eye, or kidney diseases live longer than those who receive other treatment methods such as dialysis or oral medications. The problem is that there is a shortage of organs for transplantation all over the world. The list of patients waiting for donors run in the hundreds of thousands, with about 100,000 of them waiting for kidney donors alone. This has led to questions about the possibility of ...

Organ donation is a gracious act that adds more years to a sick individual’s life. It allows them to live a longer and healthier life than what they have had before. Those with end-stage heart, eye, or kidney diseases live longer than those who receive other treatment methods such as dialysis or oral medications. Those who receive organs from a living donor are said to live 12 to 20 more years as compared with those who receive organ donation from a deceased donor. However, regardless of where the organs come from, the reality is that there is a ...

Abstract

The aim of this study is to examine various reasons why some people agree to participate in organ donation while others do not. Furthermore, the paper will discuss the death rates that have been raising Australia due to lack of organ donors. In this regard, the research points out that the most informed people have no problem discussing their death or organ transplants while those that are uninformed rely on fictional TV dramas and Ick factors to disregard organ donation. Religion has also been considered as a topic for this discussion because while other denominations believe in acts of ...

Are there any circumstances in which you would allow yourself to be cloned?

Even though the potential to clone human beings is a dangerous undertaking, certain unique circumstances may influence my personal decision to necessitate a clone of myself. First, Kuhse (219) observes that human cloning holds promise to alleviate modern day medical issues. Consequentially, since I have a heart for the suffering and the under privileged, I would allow myself to be cloned so as to provide vital organs for transplants in order to save countless lives. I would however only allow myself to be cloned when sure of my motives which must be hinged on saving lives and not on ...

Traidos Bank and Roche’s Drug Trial in China

Introduction An organisation or a firm can set standards that may determine what is good or bad while making decisions. These are the ethics of an organisation, knowing what is right and wrong and deliberately choosing to do the right thing. Traidos bank prides itself on being ethical. It is guided by having six principles. The principles are, promoting sustainable development in everything that they do, respecting and obeying the laws of any country that they work in, respecting human right regardless of race and culture, respecting the environment by discouraging negative influence, being accountable for anything that they ...

Stem Cell Research has brought to mankind remarkable results. The use of non-embryonic stem cells have brought a particular recent success to many people. Research at Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois, headed by a Dr. Richard Burt, has produced a procedure utilizing cells that come from the patient that has been successful in the cases that have undergone treatment. The process is known as Autologous Hermatopoietic Stem Cell Transplant (AHSCT) that has currently been used on patients who have the most common form of Multiple Sclerosis (MS Unites, 2016). The procedure uses the body’s stem cells from the ...

Purpose

The objective was to remove all doubts about the treatment of multiple sclerosis not being able to work for both men and women, whose domiciles are different. Comparisons for the treatment being given in two countries were to be made, with the aim of finding the similarities of drugs used, which work and which ones do not, as well as the differences between those regimens used. Through the differences, similarities, advantages and disadvantages uncovered from drugs obtained from two countries, the project sought to give male patients suffering from multiple sclerosis the ability to make sound and informed decisions ...

Colonization is a process in which imperial power systems dominate a region and its components. It features, among other things, cultural domination, political subjugation, religious assimilation and economic exploitations. The colonists used these measures as tools of winning control of the helpless people. Colonization has a close link to massive exploitation and assimilations of new cultures and it further involves actual or threat of use of force. The colonizers were formidable icons and commanded loyalty through aggression. In light of colonialism, established cultures disintegrated. On the case of Britain emperialism,Tarique noted that, “as one of its legacieshas been ...

Movie Summary

John Q is a story about a factory worker whose son suddenly falls ill while playing cricket and is in dire need of a heart transplant to save his life. Sadly, John Q, the son’s father learns that his medical cover cannot cater for the expensive cost of the operation. Moreover, government aid is unavailable to supplement his meagre savings. Consequently, John Q, in his quest to save his child’s life, takes hostage of a hospital’s ER at gunpoint to demand for the operation to be conducted on his son. When John took over the Emergency ...

Organ transplants have become a crucial life-saving issue since the first successful one in 1954. Many people have had their organs donated to other people. For instance, some donate a kidney and function with one. In most cases, donation of all other vital organs is made on a dead individual if the organs are viable. In this case, a touching story of a man from Georgia, Garry Phebus, who has made an offer of donating his organs has hit the headlines. He has battled amyotrophic lateral sclerosis since 2008, and he came to a decision that he wanted to ...

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Emerging infections are defined by Friis and Sellers (2014) as infectious diseases which were just lately identified and classified taxonomically. The majority of them can cause strong and dangerous epidemics. The term is opposed to the term reemerging infections, which denotes “. . . some ‘old’ diseases, for example, tuberculosis or syphilis, that were renewed because of changed conditions in the chain host-agent-environment (Friis and Sellers, 2014). Beltz (2011) describes such emerging diseases as HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis, Lyme disease, Respiratory distress syndrome, Lassa fever, Cholera and others. In most cases emerging infections are not caused by mutations in a pathogen (Beltz, 2011). Lashley ( ...

Hypertension, the chronic elevation of blood pressure, results in enhanced morbidity and mortality in the long run. However, researchers are not unanimous about the pathophysiology of hypertension. Studies over the years reveal that between 2 to 5 percent patients face elevated blood pressures because of underlying adrenal or renal disease. Rest of the patients, nonetheless, do not exhibit any clear and identifiable reason for the malady. This statistics has well persuaded medical practitioners and researchers to acknowledge the role of multiple factors that might play varying roles in different patients of hypertension. Some of the most researched factors include ...

Introduction

Antibiotics are a class of drugs that are mostly used to treat infections caused by bacteria. Uncountable bacteria live in various parts the human body. These include the gut, skin, mouth and throats (Gelband et. al, 2015). Some of these bacteria are harmless. However, there are others that are pathogenic (disease causing) and can cause infections. These infections are known as bacterial infections and doctors prescribe antibiotics as mode of treatment. Antibiotics were introduced in 1940 and since then they have been significant to modern medicine. The core role of antibiotics was to treat infections caused by bacteria. However, ...

The law in most of the countries has prohibited the sale of body organs. Although the organs are considered the property of an individual, the government still control and determine if they can sell their organs at choice (Atkinson & Sargent, 2007). The US government allows hospitals to harvest organs of dead individuals if their family does not claim them. However, in countries such as Spain, the government has allowed hospitals to harvest organs from the dead by enacting a law that allows hospitals to harvest organs from the dead unless the person had left a will prohibiting the harvest. ...

The thing that I found interesting in the article, Tools for Implementing an Evidence Based Approach in Public Health Practice, was the description of domains that influence evidence based decision making (Jacobs, Jones, Gabella, Spring, & Brownson, 2012). The environment and the organizational contexts in which these domains interact is important and I agree with it. For example, every year, research comes out with better ways to treat neurodegenerative diseases. A particular study found immunoablation and bone marrow transplant, to be particularly beneficial in curing Multiple Sclerosis forever (Radowitz, 2016). The most common drugs that are prescribed to patients with ...

The purpose of this paper is to review the etiology, pathophysiology, clinical manifestations, inheritance patterns, and recent advances in disease management of cystic fibrosis. Cystic fibrosis is a progressive and lethal disease resulting from an autosomal recessive gene (Singh, Rebordosa, Bernholz, & Sharma, 2015). The major problem associated with cystic fibrosis is the repeated lung infections that over time severely damage the lungs, scar and widen the passageways and limit the ability to breathe (Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, n.d.). As of 2013, there are an estimated 70,000 cystic fibrosis patients globally with 33,000 of them in the United States ( ...

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Introduction Biotechnology is an innovative field where biological processes are applied for the provision of genetic manipulation for microorganisms for the production and commercialisation of antibiotics and hormones amongst others. Biotechnology is a process whereby scientists use various aspects of technology to modify genes and microorganisms of living things in order to attain specific goals in the organism in which it is done. The preliminary elements of this course has shown that biotechnology is carried out in both applied and pure research. In applied research, biotechnology is used for the provision of various solutions like medicines, treatment for incurable ...

INTRODUCTION

There are many different conditions, diseases, infections and disorders that can negatively affect human beings, damaging their bodies, compromise overall health, diminish their quality of life and very often lead to the sufferer’s death. Polycystic kidney disease in one of these more serious conditions. Polycystic kidney disease is an incurable condition that encourages the growing of cysts which can overtake the kidneys, cause them to malfunctions and even fail all together. More than 600,000 people in the United States are living with polycystic kidney disease and the condition contributes to more than 5% of all cases of ...

Organ Donation

Abstract Increasing rates of organ donation is essential in maintaining a good healthcare system. The number of individuals waiting for an organ continues to increase with time, but the number of available organs is not increasing at the same pace. Understanding the reasons why people do, and do not, join the organ donation register is an important first step into creating campaigns that can increase awareness of the issue and get more people to enroll in the organ donation register. This research report covers some of the recent research on why people join the organ register and the barriers ...

Cruetzfeldt Jacob Syndrome (CJD) is a fatal disease affecting humans and is caused by infectious proteins called prions. It belongs to transmissible spongiform encephalomyelitis group of diseases. The disease occurs from the accumulation of prions PrSc that damages the brain cells. CJD can occur in a hereditary form or as an acquired form. The hereditary form results from a dominant mutation affecting prion protein gene (PrP). CJD is a communicable disease. Acquired infection occurs through iatrogenic transmission from hospital. Contaminated instruments used in surgery’s are an important cause for transmission in iatrogenic infection. The disease can also be ...

The case study discussed the case of a 52-year-old female of normal height and obese in weight. She had come with a medical history of diabetes mellitus, coronary artery disease, hypertension, acute renal failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and patent ductus arteriosus (Case Study 2, n.d). She also had a family history of the problems she was suffering with. Ideally, she should have been on the transplant list but due to lack of social support, she was denied getting on the list. The proper course of treatment was taking her step by step as the first step was to ...

Final Case: Health Care Ethics

Reason for the Case The primary question regarding the case is to justify whether or not it is fair to deny anatomical gifts to someone who abstains from donating his or her own organ or tissue.

Summary of the Case

One of the representatives of the state of California prosed a law that aims to increase the organ and tissue donors in the state. This is due to thousands of patients who are waiting for organs, but the actual citizens who are willing to donate may not be sufficient to address the needs for tissue and organ transplantation. According to the draft bill, ...

Coursename Sickle-cell anemia is a genetic blood disorder, which affects the red blood cells. It was first described in the medical literature in 1846. In 1910, Ernest Irons became first to write about the pathologically altered red blood cells of the patient with sickle-cell anemia (Serjeant 425-429). It is caused by the mutation of the gene encoding the synthesis of the hemoglobin. As a result, the hemoglobin of the affected people is defective (hemoglobin S). Glutamic acid in it is substituted with valine in the sixth position of the β-chain. This change greatly reduces the solubility of hemoglobin in ...

Introduction

As many firms continue to expand into multinational corporations, they begin to understand that business environments have their differences. What may be essential and common in their home country could be a taboo in another region. Therefore, it is critical first to assess the political, social, legal, and economic factors of a promising market before establishing a branch in the area. This essay sheds light on the usefulness of assessing business environments by deriving ideas from several articles that indicate the diversity in legal processes in various regions. The litigation procedures are fundamental to a firm so that it ...

Organ transplantation is one of the significant issues in health care. There are various legal and ethical considerations encompassing this topic. One of the issues evolving the transplantation of human organs is obtaining the consent of the family of a dead donor. Given that the process should be done in soonest possible time, obtaining a consent from the family will take otherwise. That is because, a grieving family member may not be able to make decisions right after her loved one passed away. On the other hand, this is a challenging scenario for the physicians as such consent is ...

In healthcare, law and ethics may refer to the conditions that enable the medical practitioners and nurses to deliver high-quality services. There are instances where the human beings have been denied excellent services following exposure to improper handling by the medical practitioners. Also, there have been a number of ill practices in the healthcare sector that make the services for the patients unappealing. Some instances have indicated the relevance of ethics and ethical training, which has been ignored for some time. There are problems that have come up following lack of consideration of the ethics in the healthcare sector. ...

Organ transplantation makes the duration of life much higher and improves the whole state of health of many people with renal, cardiac or hepatic impairment. Although the one way of treatment of people who have renal insufficiency is dialysis, the best way for such patients is to transplant somebody’s organ. With the insufficiency of the liver, heart and / or lungs transplantation is the only solution. Nowadays this kind of surgeries can be made almost in any country of the world. Some other organs, such as pancreas, small intestine also may be transplanted. Also the surgeon may transplant ...

Over the past years, it was listed that more than 100,000 Americans are said to need organ transplants. There has been a consistent growing demand for internal organs such as the heart, the kidneys and the lungs for which the supply is lesser than the demands. Eighty percent of those who are in need for organ transplants demand kidneys the most because of the increasing cases of diabetes, obesity, and hypertension. To have higher chances of recovering these required organs, individual States in the US have made it easier for the people to make themselves donors whether using ...

Abstract

The essay looks at the social problem of racism in society. Racial and ethnic minorities are seen a poorer quality of health care as compared to the White non-minorities. Although the sources of these disparities are complex, they are rooted in historic inequities. Racism in health care industry involves many participants and at different levels, such as the healthcare systems, healthcare professionals, and the patients. Stereotyping, biases and uncertainty contribute to disparities in the treatments provided. Minorities experience a range of barriers when accessing health care. The purpose of the essay is to study the social problem and what ...

Abstract

The medical profession in recent years has been on the forefront in making sure that the care given to patients is in line with the conventional methodologies of health care. Additionally, the care given to the patients must aim at improving the well-being of the patients without putting the lives of these patients in danger. Moreover, the care given apart from being scientifically sound, it has to be ethical and legal. However, other alternative techniques have proved to be useful in taking care of different ailments affecting patients. These complimentary methods not only aim at healing a patient but ...

Introduction

Recently, worldwide obesity prevalence has been raised rapidly and nearly doubled between 1980 and 2014, however in 2014 more than a half a billion of adult (18 years and older) were obese (11% men and 15% women) (WHO, 2014). Obesity and overweight are defined as excess body fat accumulation that leads to health risks and comorbidities. Adult weight can be classified based on the Body Mass Index. Hence, an individual having a BMI equal to or more than 25 is regarded as being overweight, while a person with a BMI equal to or more than 30 is considered obese ( ...

As technology advances and researchers develop new applications for technological discoveries, they may open Pandora’s Box by giving consumers too much freedom to try, and very difficult choices to make. In her article, “The Made-To-Order Savior”, Lisa Belkin shows how the modern technology involved in human reproduction can be used in order to save a child’s life. The author compares the story of two children, of whom one had the chance of being able to use this technology, and this saved her life. However, for this to happen, her parents needed to have a perfectly matching sibling ...

What is organ donation?

Organ donation is the voluntary giving of an organ or tissue so as to help someone who needs them or whose organs have failed. Organ donation is normally done to save or enhance other people’s lives. Donating one’s organ is an act of generosity and any willing donor will be informed about the procedure and will be thanked for their actions to save humanity.

History of organ donation

Organ transplant experiments on humans and animals can be traced back to the 18th century. Scientists tried to transplant body organs on both animals and humans, but the experiments failed terribly. But not ...

Discussion 4

Ethical violation is a big concern in the medical profession. An article published by Daily Mail in December 2013 revealed unbelievable, rather disturbing news. The news was about a surgeon in Birmingham who was accused of a serious ethical violation. He was suspended following one of his colleague finding the surgeon's initials inscribed and branded on one of the patient's liver. The suspected person, Simon Bramhall, was working as a consultant surgeon at Queen Elizabeth Hospital. The investigation started as one of his colleagues found Simon Bramhall’s initials on an internal organ of a patient, during a repeat ...

As a result of changing environmental, biological, and physical conditions, human beings are being frequently affected by a wide range of illnesses. Some of these ailments reach detrimental levels threatening one’s life and as such prompt the need for an organ transplant to ensure their survival. Such situations are often common for diseases such as cardiac, liver, and kidney diseases. As such, this creates the need for such organs so as to treat relevant ailments and extend life. The most common organs required for transplant surgeries include, but not limited to, heart, kidneys, lungs, intestines, and the liver. ...

Transplantation of organs is one of the greatest achievements of science till now as these transplants save the life of people who are suffering from serious medical conditions. Organ donation is a life-saving medical process that involves the removal of organs and tissues from someone who has died and transplantation of those into someone who is suffering from some serious medical illness or dying ("Organ and tissue donation", 2016). The organs that can be donated may involve lungs, heart, kidney, pancreas, bone tendons, skin & parts of the eye such as the cornea and liver. The donor of one organ ...

This is a surgical operation in which a damaged or failing organ in human is removed and substituted with a functioning organ. The organ donated may be from a living or deceased donor. For these organs to match, certain tests must be conducted to evaluate donors i.e. the blood type, HLA testing, and cross-match. The first test in the process of living donation process is the blood test as it determines the compatibility of a match to the recipient (Gan, et al. 775). The organ transplant process consists of several steps. However, the steps are similar no matter the ...

Abstract

In the following case-study, Joshua is a newborn infant presented by his parents Samuel and Rachel to the pediatric outpatient unit of Robertsbridge, Sussex for screening and medical advice for sporadic vomiting at the time of breast feeding and seizure-like episodes. Samuel and Racheal also report sweet odor in the urine and loss of weight. Blood tests demonstrated increased concentrations of leucine and isoleucine. Genetic testing on the skin biopsies reveal mutation at Exon 6, c.659C>T of the of BCKDHA gene with a protein level p. A220V and Joshua exhibits about 1.5 % lesser than normal deficiency in the ...

Is this an appropriate reason to become pregnant?

Advance in technology can often raise issues regarding their application in everyday life. There are various moral considerations that arise in association with the ability to choose specific features of children when they are born. The advent of in vitro fertilization (IVF) has given parents the opportunity to decide specific characteristics of their children at an early stage. The underlying issue of the case is whether or not they should have a child that is matched with their sick child's tissue type so that they can obtain a transplant. While this would be of great medical benefit it presents ...

India is one of the leading countries in the field of science; India has developed regarding medical facilities and innovations. Indian offers international quality services and personalized care and hospitality to patients. India has continued to provide unparalleled surgical services to domestic and international patients. Indian doctors have perfected the art of organ transplant and heart operations that are very expensive to acquire elsewhere. This has drawn patients from Africa and Asian countries whose health institutions have not yet become of class. Indian surgical products for medical tourism are inclusive and very cheap compared to other countries offering these ...

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Section The issue of organ transplant has become a complex and delicate matter because it has been linked to illegal international organ trafficking, organ theft and gross human rights violations. The issue can best be understood if examined within the social context in which it takes place. In her essay “Truth and Rumor on the Organ Trail,” Nancy Scheper Highes, a medical anthropologist, explores the social and economic contexts of organ transplant in Brazil, South Africa and India. Her essay first appeared in Natural History (1998). She notes that the issue of organ transplant is particularly controversial in these ...

The average amount of water in the body of an adult person is considered to be around 60 percent of his weight (Rhoades and Bell, 2009). Therefore, if Mark weighed 180 lbs (85 kg), the approximate physiologic volume of water in his organism was around 108 lbs (51 kg). If Mark weighted 168 lbs after the accident, we can think that this weight is the actual amount of water that he lost because during these several days he lost mainly water. Therefore, he lost 12 lbs of water, which is 11.11 percent of all water in his organism. Main ...

Introduction

Stem cell therapy has proved to be a boon for the medical world. It has made treatment of many diseases a lot easier than it could have been ever imagined. Diseases which were earlier considered untreatable can now be treated with the help of this latest development in the field of Medical Science, known as the stem cell transplant. Many medical researchers believe that stem cell transplant have enormous potential to change the face of disease among the humans and relieve them from their sufferings. There already are a good number of stem cell treatments existing in the medical ...

Introduction

Symbolic interactionism is in essence a sociological approach and more critically one considered highly in social psychology. It focuses on the assemblage, negotiations and variations of connotations via social interactions. Symbolic interaction is defined according to Prus (10) as the studying of means with which individuals attempt to comprehend life situations and by extension, how such individuals opt to perform personal activities in concurrence with other individuals in society. Also referred to as interactionism, symbolic interactionism is a core theoretical perspective studied in sociology and relates to the subjective comprehension of the social process, human behaviour and rationality or ...

The following description of the renal unit consists of the system characteristics, inputs, throughput, output, system cycles, and negative feedback (Meyer & O’Brien-Pallas, 2010; Glenister, 2011). The renal unit at the University of Texas Hospital provides renal services and dialysis for the people of Texas State. The unit has 30-bed capacity for inpatient purposes and a ten-chair dialysis unit for outpatient clients. It caters for patients services such as dialysis, kidney disease care, plasma exchange services, peritoneal dialysis, and kidney transplant services to patients suffering from renal failure, kidney disease, lupus nephritis, and sickle cell disease. The unit’s ...

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THE “DEAD-DONOR RULE” IN THE ETHICS OF ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION Abstract Organ transplantation has given rise to numerous questions in the minds of the medical professionals of the world across the globe. There have been an enormous number of unanswered questions regarding the ethical issues about the concept of organ donation and organ transplantation. In this paper, we will discuss the role of dead donors rule and brain death in the context of organ donation. It has been seen since years that different parts of the world and different people of the medical fraternity have different definitions of death. For ...

HCV or Hepatitis C virus infection has over 5 million people affected in US (Chak, et al., 2011) and over 120 million people worldwide hence a global health problem. This virus belongs to Hepacivirus genus and Flaviviridae family (Lindenbach, et al., 2007) with six genotypes and with more than seventy subtypes. In approximately 85% infected individuals it may be unresolved, hence representing a significant hepatocellular carcinoma and liver cirrhosis cause. It is viewed as commonest cirrhosis cause and chronic liver disease in the world. It also represents the main liver transplantation cause in USA, Europe, and Australia (Thimme, et ...

Organización Nacional de Trasplantes (ONT) The founding of the ONT in 1989 was a great leap for mankind’s health system. Throughout the years, Spain exerted a lot of effort to encourage volunteers or donors to contribute for the welfare of other people, especially those who are extremely ill. This transplantation system offers creating organs from stem cells, artificial organs, ending body rejection, machines to keep organs alive, and printing 3D organs.

The Problem

The main problem about the system is its lack of innovation that is essential for an organized service distribution. For example, there are recipients on the ...

Executive Summary

The purpose of this report is to provide a comprehensive analysis of a business strategy used by Emory Atlanta Hospital. In particular, this report provides a brief historical profile of the institution, outlines its vision and mission statements, describes internal and external environments of the company (using EFE, CPM, SPACE and SWOT matrices). The final section of the report explains how the organization can improve its performance and, correspondingly, to increase its market share.

Introduction

Emory Atlanta Hospital is one of the most reputable healthcare institution of the United States of America, recognized for its medical and academic integrity, exceptional ...

The study was taken for determining the effects of the resistance exercise training on the bone metabolism in the heart transplant recipients. Osteoporosis often complicates the heart transplantation. There isn’t a preventive strategy which is accepted for the glucocorticoid-induced the loss of bone. There were about sixteen people who were male recipients for the heart transplant. They were assigned to a resistance exercise group which trained for about six months or the control group which didn’t perform the resistance exercise. The bone mineral density of the whole body, the femur neck and also the lumbar spine was ...

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Abstract Sickle Cell Disease is a life-long debilitating disease that affects nearly 100,000 Americans (Sickle Cell Disease). Sickle Cell Disease is most common among people of African, Caribbean, Indian, Mediterranean, Saudi Arabian and people of Central and South American descent. Many scientists attribute Sickle Cell Disease to being the result of an evolutionary response against malaria (University of Utah Health Sciences) The reason for this is because the majority of cases of Sickle Cell Disease are located in regions of Africa or exist in descendants of Africans who used to live in areas that had high levels of ...

Introduction

The United States is in need of more organ donors in order to address the increasing number of patients who need to undergo organ transplantation. However, there are various constraints that disable patients from finding organ donors, whether alive or deceased, due to limitations provided by the National Organ Transplant Act or NOTA. This law provides that monetary compensation to be given to organ donors is illegal. On the other hand, there are countries that allow the system of organ donation in exchange for monetary benefits. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the supply and demand, in ...