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.
The nurse needs to note the source of the patient health history
Emphysema. (a) Illustration comparing normal lungs and emphysemic lungs. The inserts illustrate how
ROM exercises on a patient’s wrist: extension.
A surgeon holds a pacemaker next to an X-ray of a pacemaker implanted in a patient’s chest.
Distance from Initial Change in Membrane Potential vs. Voltage Change Relative to Initial Change
Flow scattergrams showing results on the top set from a healthy donor and on the bottom set from a ...