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 liver in this photograph was from a deceased patient with an advanced state of cirrhosis.
The reminder card should be completed and handed to the patient after the appointment is scheduled.
Calipers are used to measure the body fat on the triceps of a patient.
Patient Teaching Methods
Apply direct pressure to the patient’s wound.
Blood pressure is controlled by the cardiovascular and kidney systems