Tina P. Schwartz

Organ Transplants

A Survival Guide for the Entire Family

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Talks to teens and offers practical advice and suggestions for coping with and surviving the situation of when a family member has an organ transplant, or when they are personally facing an organ transplant. It covers how to deal with events that happen before, during, and after the surgery.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Scarecrow Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. April 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 683g
• ISBN-13: 9780810849242
• ISBN-10: 0810849240
• Artikelnr.: 21093410

Autorenporträt

Tina P. Schwartz is a full-time freelance writer of children's books and the child of a parent who went through an organ transplant.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Acknowledgments
Part 2 Introduction
Chapter 3 1 Getting the News
Chapter 4 2 General Info to Know
Chapter 5 3 Heart Transplant
Chapter 6 4 Liver Transplant
Chapter 7 5 Kidney/Pancreas Transplants and Islets, too!
Chapter 8 6 Lung Transplants
Chapter 9 7 Waiting, Waiting, and More Waiting
Chapter 10 8 From False Alarms through Transplant and Beyond
Chapter 11 9 Minorities and International Patients Having Transplants
Chapter 12 10 Donors and Donor Families
Chapter 13 11 Transplant Myths, Media Coverage, and Controversies
Chapter 14 12 Any Regrets?
Chapter 15 13 How You Can Make a Difference
Part 16 Notes
Part 17 Glossary
Part 18 Contact Information
Part 19 Suggested Reading
Part 20 Index
Part 21 About the Author