John Nicholas, 28, of Chicago, was part of a medical breakthrough as doctors at Northwester Medicine performed the first awake kidney transplant on him.
Surgeons say they have successfully performed a kidney transplant on a patient who was awake during the operation.The patient who underwent the medical breakthrough is John Nicholas, a 28-year-old biomedical engineering student.About 10 years ago, Nicholas started experiencing symptoms of kidney failure and, after dialysis treatments began to fail him, he knew he was going to need a kidney transplant.
Tomas is the chief of regional anesthesiology and acute pain medicine at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. He shared how doctors used their tools to expedite recovery along with a spinal anesthesia shot for the historic operation.They say it was less complicated than most C-sections and doctors could even communicate with Nicholas in real time during the surgery."They were able to show him the kidney that was going to be transplanted into him," shared Garcia Tomas.
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