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.
Documenting the health history is a crucial step in providing patient care
Taking a Patient's Blood Pressure
Proper placement and monitoring of an automatic blood pressure cuff will reduce the risk of injury o
Medical assistants are often involved in confidential conversations between the physician and the pa
A surgeon holds a pacemaker next to an X-ray of a pacemaker implanted in a patient’s chest.
Establishing a steady-state resting membrane potential.