Answer to Question 1
Kidney transplantation is classified as a deceased-donor or living-donor transplantation. Living-donor transplants are either genetically related or non-related transplants.
Rejection is prevented with a combination of medications that assist to suppress the immune system including: Imuran, Simulect, corticosteroids, muromonab-CD3, CellCept, cyclosporin, Rapamune, Prograf, immunoglobulins, and monoclonal antibodies.
Acute rejection indicates that the recipient's signs and symptoms demonstrate the reduced function of the kidney and immune attack against it.
Answer to Question 2
This diet consists of foods that are mechanically altered by blending, chopping, grinding, or mashing so that they are easy to chew and swallow.
Use gravies, sauces, vegetable/ fruit juice, milk, half & half, broth, or water from cooking to moisten foods when mechanically altering and serving.
Casseroles or salads are served moist and without large chunks of meat or vegetables.
Soups are served with small pieces of easy to chew and swallow meats and vegetables.
Vegetables are cooked tender enough to be easily mashed with a fork.
Bread products are mixed with sauce, gravy, or syrup until the bread product begins to dissolve into a slurry.
Sticky and chewy foods such as peanut butter and caramel are not served.
Nuts; seeds; overly dry foods; and tough, fibrous, or stringy foods are avoided.
Critical thinking involves analysis in which the nurse examines patient data available from a variet
(A) Scratch test; patient is exposed to allergens through a light scratch on the skin; (B) Positive
Kidney stone.
The approval of a new drug is a four-stage process: (1) preclinical investigation, (2) clinical inve
Example of a patient statement.
standard reduction potential (Eo), the greater the tendency of the oxidized form of a redox couple