title: Kidney transplantation: a therapy option.
abstract: The growing number of patients with end stage renal disease (ESRD) choosing kidney transplantation as a therapy option has increased critical care nurses' exposure to this patient population. Critical care nurses have a crucial involvement when caring for the patient in the postoperative period or when serious complications develop. A knowledge base of immunosuppressive therapy and the body's response to it is helpful in assessing and identifying rejection, infection, and technical complications.
authors.forename: N J
authors.initials: NJ
authors.lastname: Beckman
authors.forename: H M
authors.initials: HM
authors.lastname: Schell
authors.forename: P R
authors.initials: PR
authors.lastname: Calixto
authors.forename: M M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Sullivan
mesh_terms: D003422:Critical Care; D006801:Humans; D007165:Immunosuppression Therapy / Q000379:methods / Q000451:nursing; D016030:Kidney Transplantation / Q000276:immunology / Q000379:methods / Q000451:nursing*; D011182:Postoperative Care