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Articles tagged "Resource utilization"

  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    The Impact Of Covid-19 On Pediatric Organ Donation And Transplantation

    E. Lee1, X. Zhang2, G. Mazariegos3, T. Nakagawa4

    1Transplant Surgery, UPMC Childrens Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 2UPMC Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, 3Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 4Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, University of Florida College of Medicine, Jacksonville, FL

    *Purpose: The global COVID-19 pandemic has significantly altered delivery of healthcare. Hospital resource utilization has been impacted on multiple levels including solid organ transplantation and…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Dual Deceased Donor Kidney Transplants: Maximizing Utilization of Suboptimal Kidneys

    S. Nagaraju, S. Vaishnav, K. Boggs, T. Cook, A. Jones, J. B. Africa

    Renal Transplant, Charleston Area Medical Center, Charleston, WV

    *Purpose: To demonstrate that dual transplant of marginal kidneys is an underutilized strategy to minimize discard rates and mitigate organ shortage.*Methods: We compared dual kidney…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Complex Donor Transfer and Organ Procurement Organization Collaboration to Reduce Ischemia Time in Combined Face and Bilateral Hand Transplant

    J. Trilles1, D. Boczar1, B. F. Chaya1, Z. P. Berman1, G. K. Diep1, R. Rodriguez Colon1, D. J. Ceradini1, E. D. Rodriguez1, B. E. Gelb2

    1Hansjörg Wyss Department of Plastic Surgery, NYU Langone Health, New York, NY, 2Transplant Institute, NYU Langone Health, New York, NY

    *Purpose: We present a complex donor transfer protocol that places the donor at the recipient hospital prior to allograft procurement in order to reduce ischemia…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Reducing Financial Burden for Living Donors: A Single Center Experience of Increased National Living Donor Assistance Center (NLDAC) Support

    T. Klair, K. Throgmorton, D. Oviedo, E. Cepeda

    Transplant Center, University of Texas Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX

    *Purpose: National Living Donor Assistance Center (NLDAC) offers assistance to overcome some of the financial barriers associated with Living Donation. From 2015 to 2020, an…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Establishing a New Hepatobiliary Surgery Program in a Level 1 Trauma Center Community Teaching Hospital (Our Open and Robotic Experience)

    J. S. Han, S. A. Neubauer, C. E. Renner, C. M. Dunham, T. J. Chirichella

    General Surgery, St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital, Youngstown, OH

    *Purpose: To improve access to quality care, the surgical outcomes and influencing factors were investigated for a new hepatobiliary surgery program established by a transplant…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Costs Associated with Induction Therapy for Pediatric Kidney Transplantation

    N. M. Rodig1, H. Pizzo2, D. Levy Erez3, T. Richardson4, M. Somers1

    1Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, 2Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, 3Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, 4Children's Hospital Association, Lenexa, KS

    *Purpose: Choice of induction agent for pediatric kidney transplantation (KTx) is often based upon patient characteristics and center practice; costs associated with this choice have…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Quantification of Center Aggressiveness in Accepting Sub-Optimal Kidney Donations from Deceased Donors in the US

    T. P. Chiang1, M. Eagleson1, A. Massie1, M. Krach1, D. Segev1, J. Garonzik Wang2

    1Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 2School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

    *Purpose: Understanding center-level differences in usage of marginal deceased-donor kidneys (suboptimal kidneys, SOK) can help centers increase their deceased-donor transplant rate (DDKT), and to direct…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Patient and Provider Perspectives on Telehealth Clinic Visits Precipitated by the Covid-19 Viral Pandemic

    L. Adamski1, C. Alvarez1, M. Patterson2, C. Shen3, G. Kaur3, F. K. Butt3

    1Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, 2University of South Carolina, Greenville, SC, 3Penn State Milton S Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA

    *Purpose: The transplant community had to adjust to a new way of practicing medicine during the COVID-19 viral pandemic. Our transplant center quickly adapted to…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    Temporal Trends of Optn Hope Act Variance Participation

    A. Wilk1, M. Green2, C. Marsh3, N. Theodoropoulos4, R. Formica5, N. Turgeon6, A. Fox7, A. Wilhelm1, D. Klassen1

    1UNOS, Richmond, VA, 2UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 3Scripps Clinic & Scripps Green Hospital, La Jolla, CA, 4UMass Medical, Worcester, MA, 5Yale, New Haven, CT, 6UT Health Austin, Austin, TX, 7CUIMC/Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY

    *Purpose: The Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) created a research variance allowing for transplantation of HIV+ donor kidneys and livers into HIV+ recipients after…
  • 2022 American Transplant Congress

    The Role of Advanced Practice Providers in Liver Transplant Centers

    S. Nargiso, L. Sher, V. Tristan

    Keck Medical Center at University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

    *Purpose: Care for the liver transplant (LT) recipient requires expertise and consistency. Due to the rotation of trainees and the emphasis on surgical experience for…
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