{"id":4158,"date":"2014-04-13T01:31:30","date_gmt":"2014-04-12T15:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/?p=4158"},"modified":"2015-04-29T11:52:14","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T01:52:14","slug":"three-transplants-in-24-hours-set-rch-surgeons-abuzz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/three-transplants-in-24-hours-set-rch-surgeons-abuzz\/","title":{"rendered":"Three transplants in 24 hours set RCH surgeons abuzz"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong><strong>Words:\u00a0<\/strong><\/strong>Brigid O&#8217;Connell<strong><strong><br \/>\nPhotography:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Jay Town<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4161\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4161\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2014\/04\/931727-f927a80e-c14a-11e3-b362-fbc371d40a1d.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-4161\" alt=\"931727-f927a80e-c14a-11e3-b362-fbc371d40a1d\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2014\/04\/931727-f927a80e-c14a-11e3-b362-fbc371d40a1d-210x160.jpg\" width=\"210\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4161\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The surgical teams involved in the RCH&#8217;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.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The lives of three children have been saved in a surgical record at The Royal Children\u2019s Hospital, with three organ transplants using three different organs completed with 24 hours.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Sunday Herald Sun\" href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/news\/victoria\/three-transplants-in-24-hours-set-surgeons-abuzz-at-royal-childrens-hospital\/story-fnls7nyz-1226881932651\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a>\u00a0to read the full story in the Sunday Herald Sun.<\/p>\n<p>To donate to The Royal Children\u2019s Hospital Good Friday Appeal, go to\u00a0<a title=\"Good Friday Appeal\" href=\"http:\/\/goodfridayappeal.com.au\" target=\"_blank\">goodfridayappeal.com.au<\/a>\u00a0or phone 9292 1166.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lives of three children have been saved in a surgical record at the RCH, with three organ transplants using three different organs completed with 24 hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7198],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-friday-appeal"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4158"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4162,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4158\/revisions\/4162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}