Search Tag: Lung Transplantation

ICU Management

2024 17 May

  Every hospital can contribute to adequate lung donation. Learning and understanding the management of potential donors will allow them to receive proper care and be referred to save a life.   Introduction Organ transplants are, in many cases, the only therapeutic option for patients with terminal diseases in different organs (Westphal...Read more

ICU Management

2021 06 Apr

In May 2020, a team led by thoracic surgeon Konrad Hoetzenecker of the Department of Surgery of MedUni Vienna and Vienna General Hospital performed a lung transplant on a 44-year-old patient who had been seriously ill with COVID-19. She thus became the first patient in Europe to receive a lung transplant for this indication. The Vienna lung transplantation...Read more

ICU Management

2020 31 Aug

Doctors from General University Hospital in Prague saved the life of a 36-year-old woman and mother of a two-year-old child who urgently needed a lung transplant. She survived an incredible 143 days without a full working lung — due to the support of a device called iLA Membrane Ventilator. The iLA Membrane Ventilator is an extracorporeal ventilation...Read more