Thanks to the donation of heart, liver, lungs and kidneys taken from a sixty-year-old person who died of an acute irreversible brain injury, five patients from the Veneto, Tuscany, Piedmont and Sardinia now have a new life expectancy.

The multiple organ harvesting was carried out in recent days at the Giovanni Paolo II hospital in Olbia, it is the first of 2023 in Gallura.

"When an organ is harvested, the first people to thank are the family members who, in a moment of great pain, have the strength to show generosity towards patients who would have little hope of life without a transplant", underlines Fabienne Fonnesu, local coordinator of organ harvesting. In Italy there are about eight thousand people waiting to receive an organ.

«When a brain death is recorded in our structures, we activate the legal procedures. Thanks to the collaboration between the local Coordination and the regional transplant center, the surgical teams carry out the removal of the organs deemed suitable from the operating block of the John Paul II hospital. Subsequently, the organs taken from the donor will be transplanted into compatible recipients on the waiting list. Throughout this process, the great teamwork that is created between the personnel of the Intensive Care Unit, the operating block and all the specialists of Radiology, Cardiology and the Analysis Laboratory who intervene in the various phases is fundamental”, recalls the director of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Roberto Passaro.

(Unioneonline)

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