Transplant Facilities
Room B15 - the first 'transplant unit'
| "Only sterile things were allowed into the "clean corridor". Anything removed from the patient's room would be taken away via the "dirty corridor". So there was a one-way traffic. Doctors could go into dirty corridor to look at readings on the patient monitors. These included ECG, blood pressure, pulse rate, respiratory rate and temperature monitors. Only one patient was treated at a time, as there was only one room for post-transplant care." (Dr A Lambie). More info |
The Nuffield Transplant Surgery Unit
The Unit was built at the Western General Hospital and opened on 31st January 1968.
The design was such that dialysis machines and X-ray machines could operate from outside the patients' rooms. The new building was described in detail in the Lancet in 1968.
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