Transplant Heart Spilled on Pavement in Rush to Hospital
- Posted on January 13, 2012 at 7:31pm by
Liz Klimas
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Two medics in Mexico know what it’s like to be heart breakers — and it‘s not because they’re popular with the ladies.
In the mad dash to the emergency room door, the rolling cooler carrying a heart for transplant popped open spilling its contents on the pavement. Luckily, doctors said the heart was not broken by the tumble.
Watch the footage:
Mexico City police say they used a helicopter to deliver the heart in “a rapid, precision maneuver.” But while running a medic stumbled and the plastic-wrapped heart tumbled out of a cooler onto the street.
The carrier quickly put the heart back in the cooler and officials say the spill did not damage the organ.
Materials left behind from the spill.
Newspaper reader Christian Sabido posted one of the more printable online comments Wednesday, saying: “Anybody can make a mistake, but with this type of thing you should be careful.”
The heart was quickly returned to the cooler without missing a beat and it has been confirmed that the transplant took place. Now the patient and doctors wait to see if it was successful.
(Related: Check out this technology that can keep donor hearts beating until ready for transplant.)
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Comments (55)
MASSACHUSETTS MORMON
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 10:53amI gasped when I saw this video.
In 1984 my 15 month old son received the first liver transplant at Children’s Hospital in Boston. On local TV I watched the private jet carrying his new liver arrive at the airport. The liver was transferred to an ambulance that had to make its way through rush hour traffic to the hospital. When it arrived l I saw a courier carrying a construction worker sized Playmate cooler with a handle on top,
Today he is married and has two healthy children – thanks in small part to a hand held cooler.
Report Post »TXPilot
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 2:58pmI’m sure the heart was ok and was subsequently implanted in the patient. The only downside, is that the person who got it, will probably now have a mysterious and lifelong obsession to throw himself into traffic…
Report Post »Kaoscontrol
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 3:22pmSo glad for you and your son. I’m curious– were you able to keep the playmate cooler to use for picnics or did the hospital keep it? ;-)
Report Post »Secret Squirrel
Posted on January 16, 2012 at 11:14am.
Report Post »5 second rule?
forthepeople
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 10:53amDid not need two people in carrying a cooler ! it was grandstanding, watch as they pull in 2 directions when it comes open .
Report Post »dealer@678
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 10:32pmIf i ever need an organ to survive i want a mexican to deliver it. NOT
Report Post »pavepaws
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 6:08pmDam* lids…….. deliver the heart in “a rapid, precision maneuver.” No way.
Report Post »DD313
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 10:45amCalling John Edwards! We found you a heart!
Report Post »Libertarian B 4 Libertarians Were Cool
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 9:59pmNow they just have to find his balls!
Report Post »notmeatglennbeckdotcom
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 5:53pmSo how was that blood sucking leech of an attorney processing all of the plasma he “acquired” all these years?
Report Post »ImMadAsHell
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 10:18amJust in the nick of time, a heartbeat away, or should I say a hop, skip and a jump away……. or should I say a flatfooted clumsy Peppi struggling with that 500 pound cooler……
Report Post »ImMadAsHell
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 10:15amJust in the nick of time, they “were” a heartbeat away until a hop skip and a jump away….
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 9:59amMaybe the Mexican Beavis And Buthead need to look for another line of work…in their own country please.
Report Post »macpappy
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 9:44amIf the patient lives, he will have a hell of a vedio and story to tell his grandkids.
Report Post »macpappy
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 10:00amvidio. Sometimes, my fingers get ahead of my small brain.
Report Post »macpappy
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 10:02amScrew it, I need more sleep.
Report Post »hi
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 10:16amhahaha! you are funny!
Report Post »OneTermPresident
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 2:50pmThat was funny… screw it..lmao
Report Post »conservativestoner
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 9:35amremember chris farleys “relapse guy” on snl ?
Report Post »Charles
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 9:29amThese “medics” need to stay in Mehico
Report Post »4xeverything
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 8:26amThat was a heart attack waiting to happen.
Report Post »sempertop
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 5:57amI never thought I’d see the words heart transplant and Mexico used in the same sentence. I mean if there are weak links like this just getting the heart to the patient….what chance do you think the patients gonna have?????
Report Post »TomFerrari
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 6:59amDon’t they usually put miles of duct tape around those coolers?
Was this just their weekend job? Bizarre.
Okay, I have to admit, the first thing that came to mind was a movie… I think it was “Rat Race” with Rowan Atkinson. If you haven’t seen it, do! Kinda like “Mad Mad Mad Mad World,” but with a transplant organ thrown in. (pun intended)
Report Post »joehanx2
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 5:19amwas it that heavy they needed 2 ppl to tow the thing
Report Post »TheSitRep
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 10:29amThat’s exactly why they dumped it.
Report Post »Too many cooks spoil the broth and in this case they both wanted to have their hand in the heroic effort to deliver the heart.
In my best Napoleon Dynamite voice: IDIOTS!
Kaoscontrol
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 4:11amKick start my heart.
That’s chest so cold-hearte!
Report Post »Kaoscontrol
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 4:13amI meant to say…
Report Post »Thats chest so cold hearted!
lma_mikey
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 3:56amIf I only had a heart.
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 4:43amYou would…If they only had a brain…
Report Post »Lone Ranger
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 3:56amI guess the five-second rule doesn’t apply??
Report Post »Free2speakRN
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 2:09am‘Rat Race’
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 2:02amHeartbreaking……
Report Post »garbagecanlogic
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 1:11amProfessionalism, that’s what we train for. Good lord, they must be union workers.
The U.S. Out Of The U.N.
Report Post »The U.N. Out Of The U.S.
MR_ANDERSON
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 12:32amWhy were two people pulling that? It was an easily 1 person pull, and two people pulling it led to the spill. I know why, because they wanted to look important for the media.
I’m glad it was a success though.
Report Post »Snidely
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 12:27amSo, it takes two guys to pull a cooler, on wheels, containing a heart that weights less than a pound? Might want to rethink that procedure. Maybe even spring for a Coleman latching stainless steel cooler, instead of the Igloo party cooler.
Report Post »Moe1138
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 12:15amThese must be the ‘Mexicants”.
Report Post »Moe1138
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 12:14amWasn’t that heart slated for Chavez?
Report Post »spirited
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 12:01amBeat the pavemet
And the beat goes on
Just a heartbeat away
>10 second rule applies to food
Report Post »TumbleBumble
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 12:21amStop dragging my heart around.
Report Post »jcannon98188
Posted on January 14, 2012 at 3:24amDon’t break my heart. My achey breaky heart
Report Post »dalmationdean
Posted on January 13, 2012 at 11:41pmI thought mexicans came north fore medical treatment…….. it being free and all……….
Report Post »Skrewedretiree
Posted on January 13, 2012 at 11:53pmWhat’s there to laugh about? Wait unitl Obamacare kicks in fulltime!
Report Post »Gumbercules
Posted on January 13, 2012 at 11:11pmViva Mexico!
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