350800login-checkDespite COVID-19, Cedars-Sinai Hits New Transplant Record |
“This spring, anesthesiologist Jennifer Cutler, MD, was looking forward to a weekend relaxing with her husband and two teenaged children when she got the call – she was urgently needed to oversee anesthesiology for not one, but two, liver transplants at Cedars-Sinai.
Cutler, who enjoys spending her weekends going on long runs, catching up on her to-do list and savoring family dinners, dropped everything to come in to work. She wasn’t “on call,” per se, but Cutler said that when she and her fellow anesthesiologists are needed for a transplant surgery, they go.
“Even when we’re not on call, we just all pitch in and get the cases done,” Cutler said. “We have always had an attitude of teamwork.”
That weekend, surgeons from the Cedars-Sinai Comprehensive Transplant Center and Smidt Heart Institute performed a whopping 11 transplant surgeries in a single weekend. They performed one heart transplant, two liver transplants, two dual kidney/pancreas transplants, and six kidney transplants (including one pediatric kidney transplant).”
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350800login-checkDespite COVID-19, Cedars-Sinai Hits New Transplant Record |