Kidney transplant performed on awake patient using epidural in ‘medical first’
It was an 'incredible' experience being able to show the patient his new kidney, doctors recall.
Doctors have achieved what they say is a medical first, by performing a kidney transplant on a patient who was awake during the procedure.
Surgeons at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago say they gave their patient John Nicholas, a spinal epidural, a nerve block, and light sedation to perform the two hour surgery.
