A Good Friday of super work for the transplant machine at Sant'Orsola in Bologna with nine organs: two livers, six kidneys and a heart, with seven patients involved (4 women and three men), the youngest aged 53 and 68 the older. Two of them required double transplants.
The joint effort of surgeons, medical specialists and technical-nursing staff of the Irccs University Hospital of Bologna - Policlinico di Sant'Orsola made it possible to create a real marathon in the operating room.
"The goal achieved would not have been possible without the generosity of the donors from whom everything starts - says Prof. Matteo Ravaioli, director of Abdominal Surgery - we then need a network ready to welcome this generosity and transform it into life. Sant'Orsola represents a national point of reference in the transplant system, thanks to technical excellence and cutting-edge structures and technologies always available to the teams, without ever forgetting the dedication of the people, professionals, doctors, nurses and technicians, who always give their best in every moment and every day of the year".
When the Transplant Reference Center (which coordinates all organ reporting and procurement activities at a regional level) reports the availability of an organ, the complex transplant machine is set in motion. Teams made up of three surgeons move to verify that the reported organ has the right characteristics to be implanted on recipients. The waiting patients are alerted and from whatever part of Italy they come from, within a few hours they arrive in the operating room thanks to the collaboration of 118, Civil Protection, Armed Forces.
However, not only surgeons work on the success of a transplant, but dozens and dozens of professionals inside and outside the hospital, from pathological anatomy, to anesthesia and resuscitation, to microbiology, to intensive care, to nephrologists, to hepatologists and to all the nurses and professionals of the Institute.
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