Cardiac transplantation: Candidate identification, evaluation, and management

Critical Care Nursing Quarterly

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 216-229

  McCalmont, Vicki ^a   Ohler, Linda ^b  

^a SHARP MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Candidate evaluation, cardiac transplantation, mechanical circulatory support devices, organ allocation, waitlist management

Indexed keywords

ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; CALCINEURIN INHIBITOR; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT; DOBUTAMINE; DOPAMINE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; INOTROPIC AGENT; MILRINONE; STEROID;

ARTIFICIAL HEART; ASSISTED CIRCULATION; ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY DEVICE; CANCER RISK; CARDIAC GRAFT REJECTION; CARDIAC PATIENT; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CLINICAL EDUCATION; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DIVERTICULAR RUPTURE; DRUG MEGADOSE; FAMILY COUNSELING; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART FAILURE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE NURSING; NEPHROTOXICITY; NURSING CARE; ORGAN DONOR; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT SELECTION; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; REVIEW; SCREENING TEST; SIDE EFFECT; SKILL; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS; WOUND HEALING IMPAIRMENT; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; INTENSIVE CARE; MASS SCREENING; METHODOLOGY; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSING; NURSING ASSESSMENT; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STATISTICS; TRANSPLANTATION; UNITED STATES;

CRITICAL CARE; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEART FAILURE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART, ARTIFICIAL; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSING ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PATIENT SELECTION; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; UNITED STATES; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 49249131562     PISSN: 08879303     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CNQ.0000325046.24646.6c     Document Type: Review

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