Recently, the news that Shenzhen People's Hospital successfully completed a lung transplant for a 73-year-old man by helicopter from Guangzhou has attracted a lot of attention.
Delivery of helicopters. Source: Shenzhen People's Hospital official website
According to the Shenzhen Special Zone Daily, on the morning of July 14, a helicopter took off from the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhongshan and took 33 minutes to transport the lungs to the Shenzhen Municipal People's Hospital. Lao Yang, a 73-year-old patient, has been suffering from shortness of breath due to pulmonary fibrosis for many years, and now he is waiting for a matching lung donation from Guangzhou. In order to shorten the cold ischemia time for the lungs, Shenzhen People's Hospital decided to transport it by helicopter this time. This is also the first time that Shenzhen has transported lungs by helicopter.
At 8:50 a.m. on July 14, Lao Yang entered the operating room, was anesthetized in advance, and waited for the arrival of the donor lung. At 9:37, a helicopter carrying the donor's lungs took off from the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhongshan and landed on the tarmac of Shenzhen People's Hospital 33 minutes later. The hospital opened all the green channels, including each elevator, access control and other facilities, and the doctor took the incubator containing the lungs all the way to the operating room quickly.
At this time, multidisciplinary medical staff such as thoracic surgery, anesthesiology, intensive care medicine, respiratory and critical care department, emergency department, operating room, and OPO are ready. At 16:15, the transplant operation was successfully completed as the last surgical thread was successfully sewn up to close the wound.
The reporter noticed that there were many negative doubts about this matter on the Internet. "Is the application process a seamless process normal or privileged?" A number of netizens said.
On the afternoon of July 22, a relevant person in charge of the Shenzhen Municipal Health Commission told reporters that the above statement is hype, "There is nothing wrong with it itself, and it is a reasonable and legal organ transplant if it is a human organ transplant system (note: a human organ procurement organization composed of human organ transplant surgeons, neurological surgeons, intensive care physicians and nurses, etc.). ”
The related article published on the official website of Shenzhen People's Hospital presents more details -
For the use of helicopter transportation, the article reads:
"Lung utilization has always been at a low level in organ donation, and one of the important reasons is the problem of transport. As a hospital that has successfully completed the difficult operation of lung transplantation many times, Shenzhen People's Hospital chose to shorten the transportation time by helicopter in order to improve the quality of the operation and reduce the impact of the transfer link on the quality and safety of organ transplantation.
'The whole process was very smooth. Immediately after obtaining the lung source, we boarded the helicopter and set off. At the same time, Shenzhen People's Hospital has opened all green channels, including each elevator, access control and other facilities, so the road is smooth, and the lung source is quickly sent to the operating room. Li Xiang, director of air service medical director of the rescue division of Shenzhen Eastern General Aviation Co., Ltd., introduced.
It is understood that Shenzhen, as one of the most important pilot cities in the low-altitude economy, has great advantages in aviation rescue, which can help more terminally ill patients get the opportunity of lung transplantation, and will also play a greater role in promoting the development of transplantation in Shenzhen. ”
Surgical procedure. Source: Shenzhen People's Hospital official website
For pulmonary sources, the article says:
"The most critical thing in lung transplant surgery is the matching of donor lungs, patients often have to register and wait in line for the right lung source, some people are lucky enough to be matched in a week, and some people wait for months or even 1-2 years.
According to one data, in 2015, 2,766 patients in mainland China had organ donation and 7,566 organs had transplantation. However, the utilization rate of organs is not high, in principle, a patient has 6 organs, can save 6 people, but a patient can only use an average of 2.6 organs, and the international standard of 3.5-4 is still a big gap.
On July 14, two lung transplants were performed at Shenzhen People's Hospital. In the two lung transplants, one lung source came from Shenzhen and the other lung source came from Guangzhou. ”
The lung source from Guangzhou was provided to the 73-year-old patient, Lao Yang, whose hometown is in Heilongjiang and has been hospitalized in Shenzhen People's Hospital for many months. Lung source from Shenzhen was provided to Uncle Yin, a 64-year-old patient. Uncle Yin is from Dalian and came to Shenzhen People's Hospital for treatment.
In order to ensure the quality of the donor lungs, the two lung transplants were carried out on the same day and were successfully completed almost at the same time.
Surgical procedure. Source: Shenzhen People's Hospital official website
On July 22, the reporter also called the Publicity Department of Shenzhen People's Hospital on the Internet-related disputes, and the staff said that they had noticed the relevant public opinion on the Internet, and the follow-up content verification and investigation needed to be responded to by the Shenzhen Municipal Health Commission.
The staff of the Shenzhen 12345 hotline told reporters that the hotline of the National Health Commission is currently undertaken by 12345, and the situation reported by the reporter has been registered and fed back to the functional departments. The relevant person in charge of the Shenzhen Municipal Health Commission said that the investigation results of the matter have been formed and reported to the Guangdong Provincial Health Commission, and a detailed notice may be issued in the future.
Source: Xiaoxiang Morning News (reporter Wu Chen Xingzi), top news (reporter Zhang Heng), Read Special News, Shenzhen People's Hospital official website