Organ Donation Awareness Week

18^th – 24^th September 2023

 

Organ Donation Awareness Week is a campaign run by NHS Blood and Transplant, which takes place every year with the aim of highlighting the importance of organ donation.  The aim is to encourage more people to register as organ donors so more lives can be saved.

 

RELATED LIBRARY RESOURCES  

The Health Libraries, both at the Royal Stoke and County Hospitals, offer numerous resources related to the issue of organ donation, whether it be the practical surgical side or the ethical considerations. In the lists below you’ll find a small selection of items. To locate these items, simply go to our online catalogue or ask at the counter. This document covers the following resources – books, journals, journal articles and patient information.  

 

BOOKS   

·         Transplantation at a glance; Clatworthy, Menna; Allison, M; et al; 2012, 2^nd edtion (Wiley-Blackwell)

·         Transplantation; Forsythe, John L. R; 2014, 5^th edition (Saunders Elsevier)

·         The European Blood and Marrow Transplantation Textbook for Nurses: Under the Auspices of EBMT; Babic, Aleksandra ; Kenyon, Michelle; 2023 (Springer Nature) - [only available as online – open access e-book]

·         How death becomes life : notes from a transplant surgeon; Mezrich, Joshua D; 2020 (Atlantic Books)

·         Renal transplantation; Torpey, Nicholas; 2010 (Oxford University Press)

·         Transplantation Immunology: Methods and Protocols; Zachary, Andrea A.; Leffell, Mary S.; 2013; 2^nd edition, (Humana Press) – [only available online as a Keele e-book]*

·         Tracheal Transplantation: Current Possibilities; Delaere, Pierre; 2019 (Leuven University Press) – [only available online – open access e-book]

·         Stem Cell Transplantations Between Siblings as Social Phenomena: The Child’s Body and Family Decision-making; Schües, Christina; Rehmann-Sutter, Christoph; et al; 2022 (Springer Nature) – [only available online – open access e-book]

·         The transplant patient: biological, psychiatric, and ethical issues in organ transplantation; Trzepacz, Paula T, editor.; DiMartini, Andrea F, editor; 2000 (Cambridge University Press) – [only available online as a Keele e-book]*

·         Kidney Transplantation: Principles and Practice, 2021, 8^th edition (Elsevier) [E-book only available by Clinical Key for UHNM]

 

*N.B. NHS staff who are members of the Health Library can request a temporary Keele username which allows access to Keele e-resources from the Keele IT Suite in the Health Library within the CEC at Royal Stoke.

 

JOURNALS   

·         Transplant international (Online), European Society for Organ Transplantation, European Liver and Intestine Transplant Association. [Available as an open access e-journal from 1988 onwards]

·         American journal of transplantation (Online); American Society of Transplantation, American Society of Transplant Surgeons. [Available as an open access e-journal from 2001 onwards]

·         Liver transplantation (Online), American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, issuing body.; International Liver Transplantation Society. [Available as an open access e-journal from 1995-1999; thereafter, only available as a Keele e-journal]*

·         Transplantation direct, Transplantation Society, Wolters Kluwer. [Available as an open-access e-journal from 2015 onwards]

·         Cell transplantation (online), SAGE Publications Inc. [Available as an open access e-journal from 1992 onwards]

·         International journal of organ transplantation medicine; Iranian Society for Organ Transplantation, Avicenna Organ Transplant Institute. [Available as an open access e-journal from 2009 onwards]

Access more journals via our Journals webpage: http://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/find/journals/  

 

JOURNAL ARTICLES  

·         “A systematic review comparing allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant to gene therapy in sickle cell disease”; Rotin, Lianne E; Viswabandya, Auro; et al; Hematology (Luxembourg), 2023, Vol.28 (1), p.2163357-2163357; DOI: 10.1080/16078454.2022.2163357. [Available via open access e-journal]

·         “Efficacy of pre-emptive kidney transplantation for adults with end-stage kidney disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis”; Azegami, Tatsuhiko; Kounoue, Noriyuki; et al; Renal failure, 2023, Vol.45 (1), p.2169618-2169618; DOI: 10.1080/0886022X.2023.2169618. [Available via an open access e-journal]

·         “The British Transplantation Society guidelines on cardiothoracic organ transplantation from deceased donors after circulatory death”; Pai, Vasudev; Asgari, Ellie; et al; Transplantation reviews (Philadelphia, Pa.), 2023, Vol.37 (4), p.100794-100794; DOI: 10.1016/j.trre.2023.100794. [Available via an open access e-journal]

·         “Assessing motivations for non-living and living organ donation among individuals with and without a history of blood donation.”, Christopher R France; Janis L France; Dominic W Ysidron; Benjamin Samstein; Transfusion Medicine, 2022; Vol. 32 (2), pp. 120-127. DOI: 10.1111/tme.12854 [Available via Keele and NHS ejournals]

·         “Changing to an Opt Out System for Organ Donation-Reflections From England and Netherlands.”, N. E. Jansen; C. Williment; B. J. J. M. Haase-Kromwijk; D. Gardiner; Transplant International, 2022, 4 July, Vol. 35 (10466). DOI: 10.3389/ti.2022.10466. [Available online as open access]

·         “Current status of organ donation after brain death in the UK.”; Manara, A. R.; Thomas, I.. Anaesthesia ; 2020, Vol. 75 (9), pp.1205-1214. DOI: 10.1111/anae.15038 [Available via Keele and NHS ejournals]

·         “Remapping the organ donation ethical climate: a care ethics consideration”, Hui Yun Chan; Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy; 2020; Vol. 23 (2), pp.295–308. DOI: 10.1007/s11019-019-09934-2 [Available via Keele and NHS ejournals]

·         “Informing the UK Muslim Community on Organ Donation: Evaluating the Effect of a National Public Health Programme by Health Professionals and Faith Leaders.”; Ali, Omar M. E.; Gkekas, Eleftherios; Ali, Ahmad M. S.; et al.; Journal of Religion & Health; 2023; Vol. 62 (3), 1716-1730. DOI: 10.1007/s10943-022-01680-9 [Available via Keele and NHS ejournals]

 

PATIENT INFORMATION / PATIENT ADVICE:  

·         Organ donation - NHS Blood & Transplant website:

o   Organ Donation: Helping you decide: https://www.organdonation.nhs.uk/helping-you-to-decide/about-organ-donation/faq/

·         NHS website:

o   Heart transplant: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/heart-transplant/

o   Kidney Transplant: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/kidney-transplant/

·         Charities:

o   Live Life Give Life: https://livelifegivelife.org.uk/

o   Transplants Patients Trust: https://transplantpatientstrust.org.uk/

·         Clinical Key – Patient Education [Available to UHNM only]:

o   Multi-organ transplant: https://www.clinicalkey.com/#!/content/patient_handout/5-s2.0-pe_ad389e45-32d9-48a2-bf29-8d0371d72cfa

o   Organ transplantation information: https://www.clinicalkey.com/#!/content/patient_handout/5-s2.0-pe_b0f9d330-f8a2-4c88-b38e-4b6ba281c874

o   Organ transplant eating plan: https://www.clinicalkey.com/#!/content/patient_handout/5-s2.0-pe_d40b5b7e-9fa8-4d92-99c0-4d41b21e9536

 

KnowledgeShare CURRENT AWARENESS:   

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