2024-03-30 13:57:53
(ANSA) – PAVIA, MARCH 29 – The first case in Lombardy of multi-organ donation carried out by a donor with a stopped heart in a hospital without cardiac surgery has occurred.
A fifty-year-old, organ and tissue donor, was admitted to the San Paolo hospital due to a cardiac arrest which caused irreversible neurological damage, which gave him no chance of survival. For this reason, doctors have decided to limit intensive intensive care treatments.
The family confirmed the wishes of the fifty-year-old and therefore the donation coordination team of the ASST Santi Paolo e Carlo was activated with the support of the Regional Procurement Coordination (led by Doctor Marco Sacchi) and the SC Trapianti Lombardia-NITp (led by doctor Tullia Maria De Deo) who saw the possibility of a multi-organ donation: heart, kidneys and liver. But at San Paolo there is no cardiac surgery center so the team from the San Matteo Polyclinic in Pavia was involved, equipped with equipment for extracorporeal circulation, including ECMO (Extra-Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation) and healthcare professionals specialized in their use . This equipment is essential for the reperfusion of organs and, in this case, for restarting the heart taken together with the liver and kidneys.
This allowed the heart to be transplanted at San Matteo in Pavia, the liver at the Milan Polyclinic, and the kidneys at Niguarda and the Bergamo hospital.
Thanks to all the healthcare workers involved came from Davide Chiumello, director of the Emergency Department of the ASST Santi Paolo e Carlo. “Their professionalism and dedication – he underlined – made this act of generosity possible which gave a new life to those waiting for a transplant”.
“This extraordinary event, the result of collaboration between public hospitals – added Andrea Bottazzi, Head of Hospital Coordination at the Procurement of San Matteo di Pavia – repays the sacrifices of all the operators of the transplant network and their families, gives new hope to those awaits an organ transplant, and pays an everlasting homage to those who wished that their will for good would go even beyond death”. (HANDLE).
2024-03-30 13:57:53