Helicopter emergency landing during organ transport Transplantation operation was canceled on February 1 at 18:11
A heart transplant operation scheduled for one day at the University of Tokyo Hospital was canceled due to a helicopter accident carrying organs. According to the Japan Organ Transplant Network, it is the first time that transplant surgery has been discontinued due to an accident while transporting an organ.
According to the Japan Organ Transplant Network, one day, a heart delivered from a man in his 50s who was judged to have brain death at a hospital in Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima Prefecture was transferred to the University of Tokyo Hospital in Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo. Was going to be ported to.
However, a helicopter from the Fukushima Prefectural Police Headquarters, which was carrying the extracted heart toward Fukushima Airport, had an accidental landing in Koriyama City, Fukushima Prefecture on the morning of the day.
The heart was transported from the accident site to Fukushima Airport by police car, transported to Haneda Airport on an airplane, and then delivered to the University of Tokyo Hospital by fire helicopter.
However, depending on the organ transplant network, the arrival was delayed by about an hour, and the impact of the accident could have affected the hospital, and the hospital discontinued surgery because the function of the heart could not be guaranteed.
It is the first time that transplant surgery has been suspended due to an accident during the transfer of an organ since the organ transplant law system started in 1997.
According to the organ transplant network, the man was preparing in the operating room, but he was quickly withdrawn.
He says his condition is stable so far, and his physician will decide whether to wait for a transplant or switch to another treatment.