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, Dr. Satish Nadig, director of the Northwestern Medicine Comprehensive Transplant Center, said...
It's a new operation designed to aid patients who face serious health risks when placed under general anesthesia...especially when they called out my name and told me about certain milestones they had reached...
Now, Northwestern Medicine is establishing a new program, AWAKE, which stands for accelerated surgery without general anesthesia in kidney transplantation, for patients just like Nicholas...It really opens up a whole new door and is another tool in our toolbelt for the field of transplantation, Nadig said...
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