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Fellow Leads Team in First Awake Kidney Transplant with Overnight Hospital Stay
In May, a transplant surgeon at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, performed a kidney transplant in which the patient was awake with only spinal anesthesia, similar to what is used during cesarean sections. Vinayak Rohan, MD, FACS, and …