IN total around 55 medical staff and support workers were involved in the multiple transplant operation with some surgeons and doctors taking part in up to four operations.
Consultant transplant surgeon Mr Paolo Muiesan led a team of doctors, anaesthetists and nurses during a six-hour operation to secure the organs from the first donor. These included the stomach, pancreas and intestine and two kidneys.
In addition a separate thoracic surgical team removed two lungs and a heart.
The liver was divided in half in the donor and then, like the other organs, individually packaged for transportation to the Children's Hospital and the Queen Elizabeth Hospital.
Consultant transplant surgeon Mr Darius Mirza led the team performing the transplant for an 11-year-old boy, using organs from the first donor. The six-hour operation involved the transfer of a stomach, pancreas and intestine.
Consultant transplant surgeon Mr Khalid Sharif led the transplant team giving a left half of the new liver to eight-month-old Lubaya Turpin. At the same time, at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, consultant transplant surgeon Mr Simon Bramhall led the team giving the right half of the new liver to 30-year-old Sandie Lee Smith.
He then led the team performing the 'domino' procedure in which Sandie's liver was transferred to Sean O'Brien at the same hospital.
Simultaneously, Mr Mirza also led the team who retrieved the organs from the second donor, and carried out the transplant operation on 14-year-old Damien Simpson using those organs, the last of the five transplant operations on the day.
Each surgical team would consist of ten to 12 people.
At least four surgeons were needed for the retrieval operations, plus an anaesthetist, two technicians, two nurses, two coordinators and one theatre assistant.
The transplant teams consisted of at least one or two transplant surgeons, plus two assistant surgeons, an anaesthetist, two technicians, one nurse, one coordinator and one theatre assistant.
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