UMMC teams perform life‑saving liver transplant during system outage

University of Mississippi Medical Center teams carried out a life‑saving liver transplant during a recent system outage, the medical center said. The center said Wade Watts and his family experienced firsthand how training, teamwork and compassion kept the procedure moving forward when technology was unavailable.

UMMC said the operation relied on staff skills and coordination rather than electronic systems during the outage. The medical center posted the account on its Facebook page and linked to a longer article on its website describing the event.

UMMC is an academic medical center in Jackson, Mississippi, that provides specialty care including organ transplantation and serves as a teaching hospital for the state. Transplant operations typically require careful coordination among surgeons, anesthesiologists, nurses and support staff, and the center said the team’s preparedness enabled continuity of care despite technical challenges.

The account underscores the importance of training, contingency planning and human factors in delivering critical care when technology fails, the center said. We will provide more information as it becomes available.