Three transplants in 24 hours set RCH surgeons abuzz

Words: Brigid O’Connell
Photography: Jay Town

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The surgical teams involved in the RCH’s epic liver, heart and kidney transplants in one day. FRONT ROW: Marcos Perini, Johann Brink, Christian Brizard, Bob Jones, Winita Hardrikar; CENTRE FRONT ROW: Kathe Beyerle, Dr Thomas Forbes, Esther Macknamara, Katharine Blaze, Mandy Walker, Wyves Heloury, Baozhong Wang, Sharon Buckley; BACK ROW: Carolyn Sahhar, Robyn Morgan, Jessica Allenby, Anja Johnson, Adonis Rahme, Narayan Vasudevan, Ebony Hill, Anne Shipp, Sally Moon, Lee Ellis, Jenny Fuller, Elizabeth Prentice. Photo courtesy of the Herald Sun.

The lives of three children have been saved in a surgical record at The Royal Children’s Hospital, with three organ transplants using three different organs completed with 24 hours.

Elective surgery lists were juggled and maydays sent out to on-call staff to rally 35 medical workers across three surgical teams to make the kidney, liver and heart transplants possible.

Nurse unit manager of RCH operating theatres, Jeramie Carson, said it was a mammoth logical exercise to co-ordinate staff and specialist equipment for the back-to-back surgeries.

Click here to read the full story in the Sunday Herald Sun.

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