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Saving Lives in Leeds

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purpleme12 · 04/03/2023 22:49

Did anyone watch this?

That hand transplant!

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Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 04/03/2023 23:31

Amazing. I don't know how you adjust to having someone else's hands attached to you.

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purpleme12 · 04/03/2023 23:32

Yes it's such a strange thing isn't it!

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Youpillock · 05/03/2023 00:14

I sobbed all the way through it. I found it so moving. His mum holding his hand and being able to hug his daughter again. Incredible programme.

Ravageur · 06/03/2023 22:20

Loved this! I was agog

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purpleme12 · 08/03/2023 19:22

Bump

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purpleme12 · 09/03/2023 21:28

This little boy's had his operation cancelled before pandemic and the each 4 operation attempts after were cancelled!

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purpleme12 · 09/03/2023 21:53

That camera down the nose 🥺😟

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Ravageur · 09/03/2023 22:07

I know!!!

I reckon they just said oh we just need to look up your nose nothing to worry about.....

which tbf would be the only way they'd get me to do that without sedation

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purpleme12 · 09/03/2023 22:23

I don't understand the pin in the woman's leg.
Why was it put there?
Should it not have been put there?

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Toddlerteaplease · 09/03/2023 22:27

I was a bit surprised that in last week's episode, they had two kids. Both needing big hip surgery listed for the same day. My ward does that surgery a lot and it usually requires an Epidural afterwards, or other complex pain management, and the children are high acuity. So impractical to do more than one at a time. Plus it can take most of the day.

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purpleme12 · 09/03/2023 22:28

Orthopaedic surgery always looks so brutal

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Toddlerteaplease · 09/03/2023 22:28

Also amazed that they bring in pre op patients he might before or book them into a hotel. We have kids from all over and we provide nothing. It's their responsibility to get them selves there for 7.30 am.

IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads · 10/03/2023 07:08

Youpillock · 05/03/2023 00:14

I sobbed all the way through it. I found it so moving. His mum holding his hand and being able to hug his daughter again. Incredible programme.

"Daddy, you've got real fingers".

Maybe someone who understands surgery better than me could answer my question. With the hand transplant, the surgeon said a few times about how important it was to attach the donor hands ASAP. Why didn't they have the donor and receiver, and their surgical teams in the same hospital? Is it because there aren't any (many?) hospitals with 2 x operating theatres the right size/enough facilities.

HelpMeGetThrough · 10/03/2023 07:57

The surgeon operating on the little girl blew me away.

Basically sat in a robot, controlling it to do the op. I know this type of thing existed, but to see it in use, bloody amazing.

The thyroid removal ops were interesting to see, as I've had mine removed. Glad I hadn't seen it before I had it done. Just felt like I'd been hit by a bus and then reversed over when it was finished.

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 10/03/2023 08:11

IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads · 10/03/2023 07:08

"Daddy, you've got real fingers".

Maybe someone who understands surgery better than me could answer my question. With the hand transplant, the surgeon said a few times about how important it was to attach the donor hands ASAP. Why didn't they have the donor and receiver, and their surgical teams in the same hospital? Is it because there aren't any (many?) hospitals with 2 x operating theatres the right size/enough facilities.

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I assume the donor was brain dead in another hospital, and once his family had agreed to allow his body parts to be transplanted various teams would have got to work to remove them, and the couriers would then have fanned out all over the place delivering them to the hospitals where the transplants would take place. Grisly in some ways, but what an incredible gift the deceased donor has given to the recipients and their families.

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 10/03/2023 08:14

purpleme12 · 09/03/2023 22:23

I don't understand the pin in the woman's leg.
Why was it put there?
Should it not have been put there?

I assume they couldn't do the new op with the old pin in place. I didn't really understand it either.

Countmeout · 10/03/2023 09:02

She’d had the pin put in for a broken leg 50 years ago. I assume it came so high up it would block some part of the hip replacement and therefore had to be removed/replaced too.

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purpleme12 · 10/03/2023 09:33

Oh ok so it wasn't the fact that it shouldn't have been there then or was in wrong?
That was what I wasn't sure about

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Toddlerteaplease · 10/03/2023 10:36

I presume the deceased donor would also be donating other organs. So would need to have multiple teams come to him. And the transport time would be the same, for the arms as the whole person.
I was surprised to discover that an adult donating a kidney to their own child is done across split sites in my trust. The adult renal unit is 3.5 miles away. I presumed it was done in neighbouring theatres.

IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads · 10/03/2023 15:49

Toddlerteaplease · 10/03/2023 10:36

I presume the deceased donor would also be donating other organs. So would need to have multiple teams come to him. And the transport time would be the same, for the arms as the whole person.
I was surprised to discover that an adult donating a kidney to their own child is done across split sites in my trust. The adult renal unit is 3.5 miles away. I presumed it was done in neighbouring theatres.

I was thinking maybe the receiving patient could go up where the donor was?

But obviously I am not medic! I am registered on the donor register and with the Parkinson's brain bank though. Transplant surgery is amazing.

Toddlerteaplease · 10/03/2023 19:18

Receiving patient would need to be where their team is. In a unit that is used to transplant surgery. Usually a teaching hospital. The recipient could be a couple of hundred miles away in a district general with no experience of it. The donor is past caring!

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purpleme12 · 15/03/2023 21:29

Bump

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LIZS · 15/03/2023 21:32

Thanks. Found it! The size of the removed adrenal gland Shock

LIZS · 15/03/2023 21:34

Brooklyn Sad

LIZS · 15/03/2023 21:49

And his poor dad.