US EditionInvestigation Into Child's Failed Heart Transplant in Italy Reveals Fatal Organ Transport Errors
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'Stable but critical conditions'. The heart traveled in a common plastic and dry ice box (ANSA)
It would have been a "common" rigid plastic container to contain the heart transplanted on December 23 on the baby of Naples, organ then turned out damaged due to the...
In the transport of the heart from Bolzano and Naples was not used a container able to monitor the temperature. Today the child will be subjected to an important neurological Tac to understand if it can face a new transplant
All the mistakes behind the tragedy: the box not suitable and the transport of which should take place at controlled temperatures much higher than those generated by the so-called dry ice, which necrotized the tissues
The case of the child of two and a half years hospitalized at the Monaldi hospital in Naples after receiving a damaged heart during the transplant of 23 December last came to a crucial point and is triggering a further controversy. His already serious conditions are stationary but still extremely delicate. The small survives thanks to the ECMO, a machine that supports his cardiac function and extracorporeal lung, but the situation remains critic…
A little boy in Naples has been fighting for his life since Christmas. A dramatic mistake happens in a heart transplant. Now there are sad news.
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