This ‘fitness tracker for the bladder,’ now in preclinical testing, has the potential to eliminate the need for urodynamics and the discomfort and inconvenience it entails.
Preoperative Living-Donor Checklist Helps Prevent Kidney Transplant Never-Events
In an effort to ensure living-donor kidney transplant recipients’ safety and to prevent unexpected donor-recipient tissue incompatibility, infectious disease transmission, and procurement of an anatomically inappropriate allograft, Cleveland Clinic surgeons have developed a first-of-its-kind preoperative checklist that is embedded in the electronic medical record.