Torino, record di trapianti alle Molinette: "24 in 100 ore"

Turin, record number of transplants at Molinette: "24 in 100 hours" "It's a great victory; we did a frenetic job to perfection." (Turin). "Twenty-four organ transplants were performed in just over 100 hours, an average of one organ implanted every four hours, a frenetic effort carried out with organization and multidisciplinary effort," said Renato Romagnoli, director of the Molinette Liver Transplant Center in Turin, a hospital where a record number of transplants occurred over the Christmas holidays. "Everything must work well for the next transplant to be performed, and we also need to have intensive care units capable of supporting the activity. It's a great victory." (Sara Iacomussi/alanews) --- Automatically generated transcript --- Well, 24 organ transplants were performed in just over 100 hours, so an average of one organ implanted every 4 hours. It was, so to speak, frenetic activity, but it was carried out with excellent organization. It was a multidisciplinary effort by many professionals and cutting-edge nursing teams. And that's the sequence of events, that is, everything must work well for the next transplant to be possible. This is true for liver transplants, kidney transplants, heart transplants, lung transplants, and we also need intensive care units capable of supporting all this type of activity, so that patients are then, as it were, woken up and immediately transferred in time to make room for the next patient. I would say yes, because many patients who had been waiting for a transplant have been transplanted. As for the liver, which is the organ I work with, I was very happy because of the Nine. We've performed 7 liver transplants on Group 0 patients, the most requested group, where the waiting list is longer. Unfortunately, the mortality rate on the waiting list is still around 5%, so if you can transplant these patients, and there is a great victory, yes, the liver, unlike other organs, does not meet the age limit for donation as it is an organ that Mother Nature has built to last well beyond 120 years, and therefore age is absolutely not a limit for the liver. The variables we consider are others that concern the anatomy and function of the organ, which in the case we call it recently transplanted, were absolutely va -