A Profile in Effective Collaboration: : The Liver Transplant Team at the University of Colorado Hospital

ISBN-13: 9783639134438 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 172 str.

Eileen McQuillan

Opis

Liver transplant surgery, once a revolutionaryprocedure, has become standard medical practice sinceDr. Thomas Starzl pioneered the procedure in Denver50 years ago. Much has changed in the world oftransplant since those early days. Advances intechnology, immunosuppression medications, andsurgical techniques have moved liver transplantationinto the mainstream of modern medicine. After ahospital stay of 7-12 days and a period ofpostoperative recovery at home, patients go back towork, raise their children, live their lives. This book seeks to describe the workings of onesuccessful liver transplant program and thecollaborative team that makes it all happen. Teammembers have been interviewed and, coupled with theauthor''s observations over her 14 year tenure withthe team, an overview of all facets of the livertransplant process, from evaluation through torecovery, is provided in terms that can be readilyunderstood by the general public. Finally, for thoseinterested in sociological theory, various pertinenttheories are presented in the context of livertransplantation and the Liver Transplant Team at theUniversity of Colorado Hospital.

O autorze

Born and raised in northeastern Ohio, Eileen McQuillan relocated
to Denver, Colorado, in 1968. She has worked with the Liver
Transplant Team at University of Colorado Hospital since 1995,
and is proud to continue that affiliation. Ms. McQuillan earned
a Master of Arts Sociology degree from the University of Colorado at
Denver in 2007.