Some time ago, a boy named Ye Sha touched the whole network, and the body organs donated after his death allowed 7 people to be reborn, distributing 5 organ beneficiaries across the country to form a "one-person basketball team"
Two months later, Wuhan "Ye Sha" appeared again, and suddenly the bad news was that the 20-year-old boy suffered a car accident and brain death.
On An ordinary Saturday, May 18, a pair of parents waited for their son's brain death.
More than half a month ago, their son Ai Xin unfortunately fell into a coma in a car accident and was diagnosed with severe head injury at the local hospital. A week ago, he was referred to the East Branch of Wuhan University People's Hospital for continued treatment.
On the night of May 18, Ai Xin's condition deteriorated sharply and he fell into a deep coma. Seeing that the treatment was ineffective, the grieving family members submitted to the hospital to apply for a brain death judgment for the child. The brain death diagnosis showed that Ai Xin had met the criteria for brain death.
Heavy decision
Donate the heart, liver, spleen, lungs, kidneys and corneas
In the darkest moment of his life, Ai Xin's parents chose to greet each other with kindness.
They proposed to donate all the children's organs and took the initiative to contact the coordinator of the Human Organ Acquisition Organization (OPO) of the Wuhan University People's Hospital, hoping that the child's life could continue in another form.
Ai Xin's organs, as long as they meet the donation criteria, can be donated. Donate one more organ, and the child's life will have one more in this world.
After professional judgment, young Ai Xin's heart, liver, lungs, left and right kidneys and two corneas all meet the standards of medical donation.
According to the results of the matching system of organ allocation and sharing, the 7 organs and tissues donated by Ai Xin were successfully matched with the 7 patients registered for transplantation.
The continuation of life
Ignite 7 lives that come to the end of the road
On the morning of May 19, Ai Xin was sent to the operating room, and staff from the provincial Red Cross Society, the hospital's human organ donation coordinator and medical staff bowed to him and held a moment of silence.
According to transplant experts, in addition to the special treatment of the cornea of the cornea donated by Ai Xin, which can be stored for 1 to 2 weeks, large human organs such as the heart, liver, lungs, kidneys, etc., must be implanted into the organ recipient as early as possible before the upper limit of the time to tolerate cold ischemia (ranging from 6 to 24 hours).
Starting at 4 p.m. on May 19, more than 50 medical experts from the four major organ transplant teams joined forces, and the departments of cardiovascular surgery, hepatobiliary surgery, thoracic surgery, nephrology (kidney disease and dialysis kidney transplant center), anesthesiology, operating room, and intensive care medicine departments worked closely together to start this "relay battle for life".
Patients with end-stage heart disease
Reborn
Liu Laohan, 56 years old, suffered from end-stage heart disease. Lasting 4 hours, the cardiovascular surgeon, with the tacit cooperation of the anesthesiologist, quickly removed the original heart that had almost lost its function, implanted a healthy heart, and closely sutured the main blood vessels.
Patients with advanced COPD
There was a chance to breathe freely again
Ms. Xie, a patient with advanced COPD, has severe pleural adhesions. With the assistance of anesthesiologists, the thoracic surgeon carefully isolated the severe adhesions in the chest cavity of Ms. Xie, a patient with advanced COPD, and successfully completed the double lung transplantation.
At 1:00 a.m. on the 19th, the lung transplant operation was successfully completed, and Ms. Xie returned safely to the Intensive Care Department after evacuating ECMO in the operating room.
Patients with advanced cirrhosis
Hope for another life
Mother-in-law Hu, advanced cirrhosis of the liver. At 5 p.m. on the 19th, the hepatobiliary surgeon spent 6 hours, escorted by an anesthesiologists, removed her diseased liver, safely implanted a healthy liver, and successfully reconstructed the blood vessels and bile ducts of the transplanted liver.
Uremia patients escape the ghost gate
Starting at 5 p.m. on the 19th, two kidney transplants were relayed. The nephrologist, with the cooperation of anesthesiologists, successfully implanted two healthy kidneys into two uremia patients.
The two see the light again
At 12:30 noon on the 20th, a corneal transplant was carried out in the operating room of the East Campus. One of the corneas donated by Ai Xin, which lasted 40 minutes, was successfully transplanted into the eyes of a patient with infectious keratitis whose cornea was perforated. In 24 hours, his eyes will see the light again.
Another cornea donated by Ai Xin will be implanted in the eye of a patient who is blind due to corneal dissolution on the 22nd (Wednesday).
The truest commitment
Alive, his eyes were still watching, his heart was still beating
After the successful completion of the transplant operation, various good news came from different wards and intensive care units in the two branches of Wuhan University People's Hospital.
At 18:30 on the 19th, as the blood flow opened, the kidney donated by Ai Xin quickly filled the body of one of the recipients, immediately secreting the first drop of yellow and clear urine, marking that the "new kidney" had begun to "work" normally in the body.
At 21:00 on the 19th, another kidney was also in the body of another uremia patient and began to work normally.
At 6:00 on the 20th, heart transplant patient Liu Mou successfully got out of the ventilator. At 12 noon, he began to eat on his own.
At 10:52 on the 20th, liver transplant patients were intubated during the removal of the trachea, and the vital signs were stable.
At 15:00 on the 20th, Ms. Xie, a lung transplant patient, successfully got out of the ventilator and enjoyed spontaneous breathing again.
Deng Fen (pseudonym), an 18-year-old Girl from Fujian Province, underwent surgery for congenital heart disease at the age of 3. Last year, I was admitted to college, and when I first entered the university, I found that I had uremia. After regaining her life through kidney transplantation, she said that from now on, she would be a good "kidney" of Ai Xin.
Roman Roland wrote in the biography of Beethoven that when goodness meets goodness is the most beautiful encounter in the world, in this world, no one can live forever, but love and kindness can make people born again.
Source: Xinhua News Agency Editor: Stroll