CME Accreditation Statement:
The American Society of Transplant Surgeons (ASTS) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

AMA PRA Statement:
The ASTS designates this educational activity for a maximum of 12.25 Category 1 credits toward the AMA Physician’s Recognition Award. Each physician should claim only those credits he/she actually spent in the educational activity.

Learning Objectives:
1. Review operative strategies to optimize the safety of living kidney and liver donors.
2. Discuss approaches to evaluate and manage challenging risk factors in transplantation candidates including arterial and venous disease, obesity and prior transplantation.
3. Analyze outcomes of transplantation using complex donor organs such as:

• those with anatomical variations or surgical trauma.
• those from unstable or non-heart beating donors.

Acknowledgement of Commercial Support:
Barr Laboratories
Enzon Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
MedImmune, Inc.
SangStat
United Resource Networks

Additional Information:
For Questions on this activity, contact Renee at Amedco at renee@cmehelp.com

Date of Activity Release : April 20, 2004

Date of Last Revision: April 20, 2004

Date of Activity Expiration : April 19, 2007

Necessary Hardware and Software:
Macromedia Flash version 6.0.79 or higher (Internet required for auto-install of Flash)
Internet Explorer version 5
Internet connection required for the online portions and web links
CD/DVD drive

Estimated Time to Complete this Activity:
12 hours and 18 minutes

Method of Physician Participation:
All participants will view slides and audio of online presentation and then complete an activity evaluation and post-test at the end of the activity before being able to print a certificate of attendance/completion.

Medium or combination of media used:
Macromedia Flash SWF

Policy on Privacy and Confidentiality:
The American Society of Transplant Surgeons (ASTS) Policy on Privacy and Confidentiality assures that personal data collected through the normal practice of on-line continuing education will be kept private and confidential.

Copyright:
All faculty in this activity have given their permission for publication.