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Caption: My Liver Transplant Adventure Ben Pezeshki,
MS3, UCLA DGSOM
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Caption: On Cinco de Mayo 2015, two transplant fellows, an infusionist, and I went to Reno, Nevada to procure a Liver. The organ donor had passed just a few hours earlier and we wanted to get there ASAP while the heart was still pumping.
The liver was going to one of our critically ill ICU patients back at UCLA. The patient needed it soon.
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Caption: My journey started at UCLA at 10:30
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Caption: The team, heading out
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Caption: "Ben, can you put these in the trunk"
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Caption: Turnt up. On a Tuesday. Said no med student ever. Except this
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Caption: Leggo
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Caption: We have arrived.
Reno, wattup
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Caption: Could get used to this
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Caption: "UCLA? We've been waiting for you"
Caption: Walking through different hospitals is always fascinating to me.
It's interesting to see how different health systems do things their own way.
This hospital in Reno was pretty different than UCLA
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Caption: Then we met the local nursing staff and reviewed the donor's labs one more time. It was going to be a good liver.
Before we started the operation, we held a moment of silence for the donor.
So touching. I loved that.
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Caption: This is what a liver looks like. This isn't the actually one we took (can't show real pics because of HIPAA).
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Caption: Back to UCLA at 5 AM. Time to sleeeep