On March 1, Beijing Youth Daily reporter learned from Chen Jingyu, a famous lung transplant expert, that on February 29, Chen Jingyu’s team successfully performed the world’s first double-lung transplantation for neocoronary pneumonia in Wuxi. The patient is a 59-year-old male, diagnosed with new coronary pneumonia, after intubation + ECMO and drug treatment, continuous nucleic acid test was negative, but the function of both lungs has been severely impaired and irreversible. The patient’s postoperative status was stable. Industry experts believe that this case of new coronary pneumonia critical cases of lung transplantation treatment means to reduce the mortality rate has greater significance.In the early morning of March 1, Wuxi National People’s Congress, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, director of lung transplantation, Wuxi People’s Hospital of South China University of Medical Sciences, deputy director of Chen Jingyu said in an article that Wuxi to complete the first case of lung transplantation of new coronary pneumonia.On the morning of March 1, the Beiqing Daily reporter learned from Chen Jingyu, February 29 in Jiangsu province With the full support of the Jiangsu Provincial Health Commission and provincial prevention and control medical experts, Chen Jingyu’s team successfully performed the world’s first double-lung transplant in Wuxi after a five-hour battle. The new coronary pneumonia case in Jiangsu Province, male, 59 years old, onset of disease on January 23, diagnosed with COVID-19 on January 26, endotracheal intubation on February 7, ECMO on February 22, and transferred to Wuxi Infectious Disease Hospital on February 24, the patient was treated with endotracheal intubation + ECMO and medication, and the consecutive nucleic acid test was negative, but the function of both lungs had been severely impaired and irreversible. on February 29, with support from Jiangsu Provincial Health Commission, Chen Jingyu team successfully performed a double-lung transplantation surgery. Jiangsu Provincial Health Commission support, the Wuxi health system breaks the routine, integration of all medical resources, by Prof. Chen Jingyu team on the case of double lung transplantation. The lung source was donated by a brain-dead patient in a foreign country, and was acquired in a foreign province and transported to Wuxi via high-speed railroad for 7 hours. Up to now, the patient has been awake after the operation, and the transplanted lungs are functioning well with good oxygenation and stable vital signs. Chen Jingyu said, the new crown pneumonia cases to accept lung transplantation surgery is the most important three medical prerequisites: First, the patient by the ventilator + ECMO maintenance, irreversible respiratory failure of both lungs; second is the nucleic acid test for many consecutive times was negative; third is the function of the other organs is basically normal, the systemic condition can withstand the lung transplantation surgery. “The risk of this type of surgery is very high, and the transplantation medical personnel have to carry out the surgery in the negative pressure operating room room room, wearing isolation suits throughout the operation, which is a great test of psychological and physical strength.” Chen Jingyu said, “In order to patient transplantation surgery success, while striving for zero infection of health care workers, in Jiangsu Province, municipal leadership support, the medical team before the operation carried out a thorough deployment of the preparatory work, the next team will closely maintain the patient, focusing on exploring the perioperative management of such patients, and do a good job in the post-transplantation anti-rejection, anti-infective follow-up treatment, to summarize the experience of the new crown of the late stage for more advanced Pneumonia critical cases to save the door of hope.” Content source: Global Times