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HRSA is the primary U.S. Federal agency for improving access to health care services for people who are uninsured, isolated, or medically vulnerable.
A living person who donates an organ for transplantation, such as a kidney or a segment of the lung, liver, pancreas, or intestine. Living donors may be blood relatives, emotionally related individuals, or altruistic strangers. These may also include domino heart or liver transplants. See Domino Transplant.
Industry:Health care
A machine that "breathes" for a patient when the patient is not able to breathe properly.
Industry:Health care
A measure of a patient's coagulation (clotting) system. INR is used in the MELD and PELD calculations.
Industry:Health care
A measure of an antigen's ability to provoke an immune response.
Industry:Health care
A measure of body size, calculated as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared.
Industry:Health care
A measure of illness severity used in the allocation of livers to pediatric candidates, established in February 2002. The PELD system uses three laboratory values (albumin, bilirubin and INR), a presence of growth failure (at least 2 standard deviations below average height or weight), and an indicator of whether the patient is less than one year of age to calculate a score predictive of the risk of death within three months on the liver waiting list for candidates under the age of 18. See Model for End-Stage Liver Disease (MELD).
Industry:Health care
A measure used to determine kidney function, the GFR indicates the kidney's ability to filter and remove waste products.
Industry:Health care
A measurement of liver dysfunction that was used in OPTN liver allocation policy between January 19, 1998, and February 26, 2002. The MELD score has replaced it for allocation purposes, but CTP is still used by some to assess function, and remains a measure for minimum listing eligibility.
Industry:Health care
A measurement or standard that serves as a point of reference by which performance of a process is measured.
Industry:Health care
A mechanical device implanted into a patient with left heart failure that assists the left ventricle in providing blood circulation.
Industry:Health care
