All You Need to Know About Organ Transplants and EKG Machines (Part 18): A Electrodes Brand Review

As for the eighteenth part of this new article series titled as All You Need to Know About Organ Transplants and EKG Machines, we will be discussing on about living with immunosuppression after an organ transplant.

Your body's defenses are always on the prowl for germs and other foreign organisms. Unfortunately, this means that your body is not a very well-mannered host. It treats your life-saving transplanted organ just like it treats a mere freeloading germ. It attacks. Organ rejection is your own body's misguided attempt to protect you. That's why there's immunosuppression.

Immunosuppressant drugs can block the effects of these natural defenses. They usually allow your body to live in relative harmony with the new organ. The catch is that by blocking your defenses, you become more vulnerable to infections. It's the trade-off of getting a transplant.

"Living with a transplant is always about keeping the balance between rejection and infection," says Barry Friedman, RN, administrative director of the Solid Organ Transplant Program at the Children's Medical Center in Dallas. "You need to take enough of your medicines to prevent organ rejection. But you can't take so much that your risk of infection gets too high."

The good news is that doctors are much more successful at striking a balance these days. No, you won't have to live in a sterile bubble to stay healthy. And after the first few weeks or months, the restrictions on your life really aren't that hard to live with.

"In general, if you have reasonable and healthy habits, you'll be fine," says Jeffrey D. Punch, MD, chief of the Division of Transplantation at the University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor.

Allow me to stop there for a moment to give a review on this yet another superb EKG machine device brand called Electrodes. Also being listed in the EKGShop.com website, Electrodes is regarded as one of the recommended ECG Machines brand available in the market today as being used by most doctors and medical hospitals or clinics.

Enumerated below are its bestsellers products:

GE SilverTrace Pediatric/Neonatal Electrodes - w/Snap. 3/pch, 45/bg, 10bg/cs.

S&W Series 760 Electrodes - Tape, 25/bg, 40bg/cs.

Conmed 1590-030 Instatrace Foam Electrodes - Adult Diaphoretic Foam ECG Electrode.

3M Red Dot Electrode 2238 - soft cloth, solid gel.

Vermed Hypoallergenic Translucent Electrodes - For Cath Lab, MRI, X-Ray, Thallium Testing, Nuclear Medicine.

Bio Detek Rectangular Foam Wet Gel ECG - Short Term Medical ECG Electrodes

Bio Detek Rectangular White Cloth Solid Gel Medical ECG Electrode - Long Term Medical Silver ECG Electrodes

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