A heart that had suffered cardiac
arrest was revitalised for the first time in Italy Saturday and
transported for a transplant in Turin.
A cardiac arrest in a hospital far from the transplant site
risked rendering the organs unusable.
However, the collaboration of doctors at the hospital in Cuneo,
where the death occurred, and the experience of colleagues at
the Molinette Hospital of the City of Health in Turin, who had
been trained in Cuneo, made it possible for the first time in
Italy, it is reported, to revitalise the heart, which was kept
alive until its arrival in the Piedmontese capital for the
transplant.
Identical work was done on the liver.
In both cases, the organs were not kept on ice, but rather
outside the body in perfusion machines.
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