The heart was extracted at the Germans Trias i Pujol Hospital and the transplant was then performed at the HUB, completing a highly complex procedure.
So far this year, three heart transplants in controlled asystole have been performed at the HUB.
It is a pioneering circuit in the public health service in Catalonia Patient-experience based, it is part of the Ritmocore innovation project.
The family and community nurses from Delta del Llobregat Primary Care Service (SAP) improve patient care with direct consultation with nurses from the Cardiology Service of Bellvitge Hospital Improved nurse-to-nurse communication saves unnecessary trips to the hospital.
The Bellvitge University Hospital (HUB) has incorporated five new types of online procedures that all users can now carry out from the centre's website. In this way, the online procedures page of the HUB website includes up to eleven different types of documents and procedures that cover the most common requests and requirements of citizens, who can now resolve them without having to travel to the centre.
This year marks the 6th edition of the Barcelona International Youth Science Challenge (BIYSC), an international programme by the Catalunya La Pedrera Foundation that brings together in Barcelona pre-university students from all over the world to develop scientific and technological research projects in leading centres. One of these is the Bellvitge University Hospital (HUB), which holds the project "The medicine behind organ transplantation".