Auto-translation of this official about the double lung transplant for a 59 y/o #COVID2019 patient on Feb 29 in #Wuxi, #China
1. The world's first new coronary pneumonia lung transplantation was successfully performed in Wuxi
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1. The world's first new coronary pneumonia lung transplantation was successfully performed in Wuxi
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2. On February 29, with the full support of the Jiangsu Province Health and Medical Committee and the Provincial Prevention and Control Medical Experts, the team of Professor Chen Jingyu, a well-known lung transplant expert, lasted 5 hours. , Successfully performed the world's
3. first double lung transplantation for new cases of coronary pneumonia in Wuxi. Experts in the industry believe that the treatment of lung transplantation in this severe case of new coronary pneumonia is of great significance to reduce mortality.
4. According to reports, the case of new coronary pneumonia, male, 59 years old, developed on January 23, was diagnosed as new coronary pneumonia on January 26, was intubated on February 7, ECMO was used on February 22, and transferred to
5. Wuxi on February 24 City Infectious Disease Hospital. After tracheal intubation + ECMO and drug treatment, the patient's continuous nucleic acid test was negative, but his lung function was severely impaired and irreversible.
6. On February 29, with the support of the Jiangsu Health Committee, the health system of Wuxi City broke the routine and integrated all medical resources. Chen Jingyu, a representative of the National People's Congress, director of the lung transplantation department of
7. the China-Japan Friendship Hospital, and vice president of Wuxi People's Hospital of Southern Medical University The professor team performed a double lung transplant on this case.
It is understood that patients with oxygenation and stable vital signs.
It is understood that patients with oxygenation and stable vital signs.
8. brain-derived patients who donate from the lungs donate with love, and obtained high-speed rail transfer to Wuxi in other provinces for 7 hours. Up to now, the patient has been awake after surgery, and the transplanted lungs have good oxygenation and stable vital signs.
9. Chen Jingyu said that there are three main medical prerequisites for lung transplantation in patients with new coronary pneumonia: one is that the patient is maintained by ventilator + ECMO, and the two lungs have irreversible respiratory failure;
10. the second is that the nucleic acid test is negative for many times in a row; the other is other organs The function is basically normal and the whole body can withstand lung transplantation.
11. "This kind of surgery is very risky. Transplantation medical staff must wear isolation protective clothing to carry out the operation in the negative pressure operating room throughout the operation, which has a great psychological and physical test."
12. With zero infection, with the support of the leaders of Jiangsu Province, the medical team made thorough deployment preparations before the operation. In the next step, the team will closely maintain the patients, focus on exploring the perioperative management of
13. such patients, and do a good job of anti-exhaustion after transplantation. Follow-up treatment of different infections and anti-infection, summing up experience opens the door of hope for the treatment of more advanced cases of new-stage coronary pneumonia. "
