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Allows a new type of organ transplantation› Living organ transplant
Maintains organs in warn functioning state outside of the body› Hearts beat› Lungs breath› Kidneys produce urine› Livers produce bile
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Simulates conditions of the human body and allows the organ to function as it normally would› Donor blood› Warms the organ as needed› Protects against contamination
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House all elements of the system› Oxygen supply› pump
Battery (transportation)
Digital screen for monitoring› Aortic pressure› Heart rate
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Sterile chamber› Protects the
heart› Maintain
temperature and humidity
Enables sterile ultrasound and blood sampling
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Provides nutrients to the organ they would normally receive in the body› Keeps the organ healthy during transplant
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Ischemic organs are cooled below normal temperature with fluids and ice to minimize cell death
The more times that passes the more damage
After certain time the organ becomes unusable› Most hearts
transplanted in four hours
• Many organs go unused because of this
• Because organs are transplanted non-functioning underlying diseases or damage due to transplantation can not be detected
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Around 2,000 people receive heart transplants every year
400 will die while waiting for a transplant
Donor hearts can last roughly four hours before they become unusable
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Two catheters are inserted into the heart› Aorta (blood enters)› Pulmonary artery
Aorta is attached to inflow Inferior and superior vena cava, all
other veins and arteries are all stitched closed so all the blood leaves through the pulmonary artery
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Blood leaves through the pulmonary artery › Passes through the oxygenator› Pumped through the heating element
Enters the heart through the aorta
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Increase the amount of time the organ can maintain outside of the body
Provides surgeons the opportunity to assess the organ outside of the body
Improve function of the organ after removal
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Typically, 92 to 95 percent of heart transplant patients are alive and their new heart is working after 30 days
Clinical trials in Europe, which concluded four years ago, showed 30-day survival rates for patients who received beating heart transplants were almost 98 percent.
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Primary outcomes› Increase 30 day survival rate of heart
transplant patients Secondary outcomes
› Decreased ICU stay› Heart related adverse events
Rejection Heart defects
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