Living Donor Advocacy An Evolving Role Within Transplantation [Paperback]

The inadequate supply of organs in the United States and other countries continues to drive the reliance on living donor transplantation. In 2000, representatives of the transplant community convened for a meeting on living donation in an effort to provide guidelines to promote the welfare of living donors. The consensus statement that resulted from this meeting recommended that transplant centers retain an Independent Living Donor Advocate (ILDA) to focus on the best interest of the donor.?A decade later, nearly every transplant center in the United States, performing living donor surgeries, has incorporated an ILDA into their living donor screening and/or evaluation process?Living Donor?Advocate?provides an overview of living donation and its risks, ethical challenges and future developments, as well as details about the role a Living Donor Advocate plays in the transplantation process. This book will interest?health professionals across various disciplines and patients undergoing transplantation or living donor surgery. ? ?This book provides health care professionals and consumers with information that facilitates their understanding of the complexity of living donor surgeries and medical contraindications, patient evaluations, and bioethics involved in living donation.

Part I: Living Donation: Chapter 1: The Medical Selection of Live Donors,- Chapter 2: Kidney Paired Donation Programs for Incompatible Living Kidney Donors and Recipients.- Chapter 3: Living Donor Liver Transplantation.- Chapter 4: Intestinal Transplantation from Living Donors.- Chapter 5: Living Donor Lung Transplantation.- Chapter 6: Live Donor Pancreas Transplantation.- Part II: Living Donor Advocacy: Chapter 7: The History of Living Donor Advocacy in Living Donor Transplantation.- Chapter 8: Findings from a National Survey of Living Donor Advocates.- Chapter 9: The Independent Donor Advocate and the Independent Donor Advocate Team.- Chapter 10: Clasification of Living Organ Donors.- ClC'