Mission Profile: Organ Type: Heart Wheels Up: 1000EST Scheduled OR time: 1200EST Donor Location: North Carolina Recipient Location: Florida Aircraft Type: Cessna 560 Encore Activation: Originally assigned to go on a different case, I was not headed to North Carolina, however, plans changed as they often do in transplant. The morning of the 14th we had to rearrange team members to accommodate multiple procurements happening around the same time across…
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Case Log 02/12/2024
Mission Profile: Organ Type: Heart Wheels Up: 1030EST Scheduled OR time: 1230EST Donor Location: Massachusetts Recipient Location: Ohio Aircraft Type: Lear 35 Activation: We were originally activated for a 1000EST wheels up time the evening before, but the next morning they had bumped the OR…
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Case Log 2/8/2024
Mission Profile: Organ Type: Heart/Lungs Wheels Up: 1345 Scheduled OR time: 1500EST Donor Location: Virginia Recipient Location: New York / Illinois Aircraft Type: Cessna Citation 560 Encore Activation: We knew this case would be going the evening before so that was not a big deal.…
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Case Log 02/05/2024
Mission Profile: Organ Type: Lungs Wheels Up: ASAP Scheduled OR time: 0800EST Donor Location: New York Recipient Location: Florida Aircraft Type: Lear 31 Alpha Activation: I wake up to a text to my phone at 05:36 – “We have an emergency lung case in New…
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Case Log 02/03/2024
Mission Profile: Organ Type: Heart Wheels Up: 0800EST Scheduled OR time: 1000EST Donor Location: South Carolina Recipient Location: North Carolina Aircraft Type: Citation 560 Encore Flight #1: We went wheels up at 0804 for this case for a flight to South Carolina, a couple minutes…
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What is an Organ Procurement Organization?
Organ Procurement Organizations (OPOs for short because I’m feeling lazy after a few days in the air) are not-for-profit companies that are responsible for “hosting” organ donation at hospitals or their procurement centers in their federally designated territories. There are 56 OPOs in the United…