On the evening of July 7, Hue Central Hospital said that the hospital’s medical team had just spent 2 tough days, overcoming the challenge of time and space to bring the heart of an organ donor from Hanoi. successfully transplanted to Hue patient.
The heart was being transported from Hanoi to Hue. Photo: Nhat Tan.
At 14:14 on July 5, as soon as receiving information from the National Organ Transplant Coordination Center, the organ transplant team of Hue Central Hospital was immediately activated. At 17:30 on the same day, the doctors brought the patient’s blood samples and departed for Hanoi, departing on Vietnam Airlines flight from 18:55 to 20:25.
The scheme of organ coordination is constantly changing due to the need to calculate the appropriateness between the time of taking the heart and the flights on 6/7/2023. As soon as the organ removal surgery was officially planned at 17:20, the Hanoi – Hue flight only had one last flight to take off at 19:35, while the actual time to remove the heart from the chest was longer than expected.
Bamboo Airways has fully supported all flight procedures, forced to apologize to passengers, to wait for the heart to return to Hue. The heart was taken to Phu Bai airport (Thua Thien Hue) at 21:25 and taken to the Cardiovascular Center – Hue Central Hospital at 21:48.
One day after the heart transplant, the TVG patient was fully awake, the indicators were stable, and the heart function was good. Photo: Nhat Tan.
Immediately after receiving information that the heart had arrived at the airport, the surgical team began to carry out the steps of heart transplant for the patient, Mr. TVG (31 years old, residing in Thua Thien Hue). Mr. G suffered from dilated cardiomyopathy – heart failure 13 years ago, received optimal medical treatment, but now his EF has decreased severely, heart function has not improved and is waiting for the opportunity to receive a heart transplant.
After 1 hour and 19 minutes of surgery, at 23:39 on July 6, 2023, the heart was beating again in the recipient’s chest. One day after the heart transplant, the patient was extubated, fully awake, stable hemodynamic and biochemical indicators, good heart function…
