Death in Nuoro, new lives in Cagliari. All Saints' Day was an important day for transplants at Brotzu. Among the organs also those of the director of the Badu 'e Carros prison Patrizia Incollu , who died at San Francesco after 12 days in a coma following a road accident . The donation "was a gesture of great generosity on the part of Patrizia and her family which will give some people another chance", commented the head of the Nuoro intensive care unit Peppino Paffi . And so it was. In total, 3 operations have been carried out in the Cagliari hospital: two livers and a heart .
«We look with satisfaction at the good outcome which confirms how the Arnas Brotzu transplant system works incessantly to guarantee a great service: we are all aware that operations of this kind allow us to offer new perspectives of life. I thank the staff who, united in a common effort, transform the organ donor's gesture of generosity into new hope for the patient", explained Agnese Foddis, General Director of Arnas Brotzu. The successes were possible thanks to the work of the urological, hepatic and cardiac surgery teams . «I extend my best wishes for a good life to those who received it. My gratitude to all the donors and their families who, in a painful moment due to the loss of their loved one, thought of the suffering of those waiting to return to life thanks to a transplant", concludes Foddis.
«All this was possible thanks to the commitment and competence of all those, and there are many who every day allow the functioning of a very complex organizational system which involves many different figures and specialists. Cardiac surgeons, liver surgeons, urological surgeons and professionals involved in the procurement process, resuscitation anesthetists, operating theater and intensive care nurses, coordinators of medical management and resuscitation", underlines Dr. Antonio Manti, local transplant coordinator at Brotzu.
These life-saving interventions are achieved only after an exceptional organizational system has been set in motion. It begins with the identification of the donor, continues with the collection of the organs to be transplanted, their possible transport to another structure, the preparation of the organ and the patient, and finally the desired objective of the actual transplant is reached. own. Brotzu boasts important numbers: from January 2023 to today, 63 transplants have been performed, 7 heart, 26 kidney, 28 liver and 2 combined (kidney and liver).
(Unioneonline/vf)
