Organ sampling at Sibiu County Hospital. Organs from a brain-dead patient will save more lives

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The family of a 50-year-old patient decided that her organs should be harvested to help save more lives, after the patient, admitted to the Sibiu Emergency County Clinical Hospital, was declared brain dead.

Teams of doctors from Bucharest, Cluj and Iași participated in the organ collection process.

The organ harvesting intervention – liver, kidney, cornea and bone – was carried out on Sunday, April 28, 2024.

The team from Bucharest took bone tissue, the doctors from Iasi harvested the liver and cornea, and the team from Cluj took the kidneys.

After the sampling, the teams of doctors urgently left for the transplant centers they belong to.

The 50-year-old patient was brought on April 21, 2024 to the Emergency Department of the Sibiu County Emergency Clinical Hospital, intubated and mechanically ventilated, after mechanical asphyxiation.

From the UPU, according to the initial assessment, the patient was taken over by the Neurology Service and, during the investigations, her already precarious condition worsened, being urgently taken over by the Neurosurgery Department in serious condition, where she was operated on during the same day, due to an intracranial hematoma.

“The Sibiu County Emergency Clinic Hospital wishes to convey its condolences and thanks to the grieving family for the beautiful gesture of accepting the patient to become an organ donor, a medical act that will certainly give a new chance at life to some patients in suffering.

The accreditation of the centers for identifying and declaring potential brain-dead donors in order to take organs, tissues and cells of human origin is done once every five years and the Sibiu County Emergency Clinical Hospital is accredited by the decision of the National Transplant Agency number 9/04.04 .2024.

The sampling carried out on Sunday, April 28, at SCJU Sibiu was the first this year”, says Cristina Bălău, spokesperson of the Sibiu County Clinical Hospital.

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