U.S. doctors perform kidney transplant on awake patient in milestone – GLOBAL
June 24, 2024
A medical team in the United States has performed a rare kidney transplant during which the patient was awake throughout the procedure and was discharged the next day.
John Nicholas, from Indianapolis, underwent the awake transplant last month at the Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. His childhood friend, Patrick Wise, whom he has known since elementary school was the live donor.
Instead of using a general anesthesia, which requires the patient to be intubated, doctors used a spinal epidural shot, which is a regional anesthesia also used during a C-section or a routine colonoscopy.
Nicholas told Global News that seeing his friend’s kidney before they put it in was “pretty amazing.”
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