{"id":12447,"date":"2020-04-19T13:37:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-19T17:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/?p=12447"},"modified":"2020-05-21T11:12:31","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T15:12:31","slug":"protecting-transplant-patients-from-covid-19-leads-to-delays-in-life-changing-surgeries-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/protecting-transplant-patients-from-covid-19-leads-to-delays-in-life-changing-surgeries-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Protecting transplant patients from COVID-19 leads to delays in life-changing surgeries"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_112_85e\">\n<div>\n<p>As the novel coronavirus wave started to roll across Canada, transplant centres had to make difficult decisions: how best to protect patients who need transplant surgeries and create space for COVID-19 patients.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uhn.ca\/Transplant\">Toronto General Hospital<\/a> is the country\u2019s largest transplant program and one of the top in the world. It is a centre for innovation and care for patients from several provinces, so the decision to scale back surgeries was difficult for everyone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we do a transplant, we put patients on anti-rejection pills and that means really knocking down their immune system,\u201d Dr. Atul Humar, medical director of the Multi-Organ Transplant Program, told Global News. \u201cWe\u2019re very worried if we do that to patients, and then if they get COVID, they\u2019ll end up with very, very severe manifestations of COVID-19.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span>&#8211; Advertisement &#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n<hr>\n<\/hr>\n<h3>Community Interviews with Moose FM<\/h3>\n<hr>\n<\/hr>\n<\/div>\n<p>It also means that transplants patients could end up, post-operatively, in the same ICU as COVID-19 patients and there would be an increased need for ventilators.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a really unique and unprecedented situation, so we\u2019re trying to do the best we can. We\u2019re taking as many precautions as we can,\u201d said Dr.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/6840095\/coronavirus-transplant-patients-delays\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0READ MORE FROM GLOBAL NEWS<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.energeticcity.ca\/2020\/04\/protecting-transplant-patients-from-covid-19-leads-to-delays-in-life-changing-surgeries\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the novel coronavirus wave started to roll across Canada, transplant centres had to make difficult decisions: how best to protect patients who need transplant surgeries and create space for COVID-19 patients. Toronto General Hospital is the country\u2019s largest transplant program and one of the top in the world. It is a centre for innovation&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[120,162,161,157],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12447"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16439,"href":"https:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12447\/revisions\/16439"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}