Welcome to the Edren Renal Transplant Handbook. Our handbooks are internal protocols, written for a professional audience; use edren.org/info for more general information. Our other handbooks are: Our Renal Unit Handbook, and Protocols for Pancreas and Islet transplantation (including with kidney, and after kidney).
The first dozen sections below are in approximate time sequence. The remainder deal with issues arising, for consultation as needed:
- Referral for Transplant
- Cardiovascular assessment protocol
- Transplant assessment
- Kidney offering
- Recipient call up
- When the kidney arrives
- Cross match
- Pre-op Recipient Work-up
- Pre-operative management
- Anaesthetic Protocol
- Post-op and fluids
- In-patient management post transplant
- Management of delayed graft function
- Management of altered graft function
- Renal transplant biopsy
- Treatment of rejection
- Discharge
- Ureteric Stent and PD Catheter Removal
- Outpatient Management
- Immunosuppressive Drugs
- Long term Data Collection
- Immunosuppression protocols
- ABO Incompatible Kidney Transplant Protocol
- Infection prophylaxis and treatment
- Archived versions of previous protocols