On the Santariškė traffic ring road, a helicopter with a very important cargo landed: the donor’s heart blew | Lifetime

Transplant coordination work at the National Transplant Office of the Ministry of Health (NTB) began on Tuesday, when NTB coordinators received information about the emerging potential donor from the Kaunas Clinics of the Lithuanian Health Sciences Hospital.

Following the positive decision of the deceased’s relatives to donate organs and tissues for donation, the heart, kidneys, cornea and other tissues were eligible for transplantation. Recipients who were expecting organs and tissues were informed about the resulting donor.

The coordination work that lasted more than a day ended in the operating rooms. The kidneys of the deceased were transplanted to the LSMUL recipient at the Kaunas clinics, whose heart was rushed from Kaunas to Vilnius by a Lithuanian Air Force helicopter at the VUL Santara clinics.

Due to the extremely short time of cardiac ischemia, a helicopter is always used to transport this organ to another city or country during the heart transplant process.

Before finalizing the first transplant process, LSMUL Kaunas Clinics reported on another possible donor, whose relatives agreed to donate organs and tissues, took heart, kidneys, liver, cornea and other tissues for transplantation. Heart and kidney transplant operations were performed at the same LSMUL Kaunas clinics, the liver was delivered to VUL Santara clinics for ambulance surgery.

Photo from the Kaunas clinics / The donor’s heart was transferred to the Kaunas clinics

Organ transplantation is the result of two equal components: high medical achievements and the most respectable noble decision of loved ones, which provide the opportunity to cure or improve the quality of life of seriously ill patients.

Any adult citizen can express their consent to organ donation. This can be done by signing an organ donation consent and, once signed, it is especially important to discuss it with family members, who have made a decisive decision in the event of death.

You can also sign the consent to receive a donor card online.