Fox News contributor Dr. Marc Siegel joins ‘The Faulkner Focus’ to discuss fears that the learning loss from the pandemic could be permanent and the successful pig kidney transplant. Kidney transplants are not uncommon — the kidney is actually the most frequently transplanted organ in the U.
S. — but a Chicago man recently received his in a highly unusual way. John Nicholas, 28, was awake during the entire procedure, which was performed on May 24 at Northwestern Medicine Hospital.
He was discharged the very next day. Doctors administered a spinal anesthesia shot — similar to what is used for a Cesarean section — instead of general anesthesia, according to a press release from the hospital. MASSACHUSETTS MAN DIES 2 MONTHS AFTER BECOMING FIRST PERSON TO RECEIVE SUCCESSFUL PIG KIDNEY TRANSPLANT "This is the first case at Northwestern Medicine where a patient was awake during an entire kidney transplant procedure and went home the next day, basically making this an outpatient procedure," said Satish Nadig, M.
D., PhD, transplant surgeon and director of the Northwestern Medicine Comprehensive Transplant Center, in the release. "Inside the operating room, it was an incredible experience being able to show a patient what their new kidney looked like before placing it inside the body," he added.
John Nicholas, the patient, is pictured with his surgeons in the operating room after completion of the kidney transplant. (Northwestern Medicine) "It was incredibly simple and unev.
