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Presents nursing care and related clinical information for patients undergoing transplantation of organs or tissues. Covers all phases from donor selection and preoperative care to post-op critical and acute care to discharge and follow-up care. Discusses the history of transplantation, patient education, psychosocial responses, and legal and ethical considerations. Also addressses immunology of transplantation rejection, immunosuppression, infectious disease, autotransplantation of the adrenal medulla, and renal, liver, cardiac, heart/lung, pancreas, corneal, bone marrow and bone transplantation. Over 30 experienced specialists contribute.Sigardson-Poor, Katherine M. is the author of 'Nursing Care of the Organ-Tissue Transplant Recipient - Katherine M. M. Sigardson-Poor - Hardcover' with ISBN 9780721628820 and ISBN 0721628826.
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