I was on my way to the Ninewells Hospital located in Dundee when I took this nice scenic photo. Such a nice greeny view accompanied me through the an hour and half journey to the Dundee. The hospital is under the National Health Service of UK, which belongs to the same family as my training hospital, NHS Lothian while this is NHS Tayside.
This is their authorised vehicle for multi organs retrieval whenever there is an activation. Driver remains the same person for each retrieval.
A fully loaded van with boxes and sterile items.
I was there for non-heart beating multi organs retrieval in which patient was announced as DNR status with heart and brain still functioning. Relatives have agreed with organ donations and hence activated the retrieval team which includes two surgeons, one scrub nurse and one trained personal for perfusion (similar to AU, but they do perfusion as well).
After the retrieval team has arrived at the hospital, patient would then be sent down to operating theatre. Prior to the sending, all the life supporting machines and treatments would be withdrawn. Everyone is basically waiting for the patient to die naturally with the scrub nurse and trolley fully prepared and perfusion fluid ready.
Unfortunately we came back empty-handed. Patient survives more than two hours. They called off this retrieval but, patient remains unaided until her end of life.........
I know this sounds terrible, but the organs may help others.
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