SOLUTIONS VERIFIED LATEST UPDATE 2024/2025
Anti-HCV +
HCV-NAT -
No infection
What agencies resolution supported the UAGA allowing OPO's to take a firm
stance in upholding first person auth despite family disagreement?
NAAG (National Association of Attorney General)
Hospital and OPO brain death policies are created following guidelines set forth
by these entities:
UAGA, American Medical Association, American Association of Pediatrics
The OPO is paid directly for costs associated with transplantation EXCEPT for
BDT by who?
The transplant center recovering and accepting the organ -- (They are later reimbursed
by CMS)
This legislation requires hospitals who participate with medicare and medicaid to
call the OPO to refer a patient who meets clinical triggers:
The omnibus reconciliation act of 1986
Referral and clinical triggers include--
1. Family decision to WDC
2. Loss of 2 or more reflexes
, 3. GCS of 5 or less
4. Neuro injury or insult
The first nonsteroidal immunosuppressive drug which promoted an
unprecedented number of successful heart transplants & helped donation and
transplantation rates to soar:
Cyclosporine
The legislation who provided federal grants to OPO's to help them become
reputable and established in states:
The National Organ Transplant Act
This legislation called for a national network to coordinate allocation and collect
clinical data about donation candidates and recipients:
The National Organ Transplant Act
UNOS was awarded the federal contract which holds them responsible for
allocation policy, organ placement, data collection and analysis, and public and
professional education regarding organ transplantation -- this is called:
The Organ Procurement Transplant Network
Who created a donor bill of rights in 1994 ensuring families receive information,
have time alone, understand BD and donation, know they won't be billed for
donation, and have the right to bereavement support?
The National Kidney Foundation
This federal regulation requires hospitals to have written protocols to notify the
OPO of imminent death and support the option for donation until a formal request
may be made: