Heart transport systems are medical devices used to maintain and nourish the heart while it is being transported for transplantation. This is a highly critical process as the heart can only be stored/preserved in an icebox for around 4 hours. The surgeon lifts the heart from the donor and puts it into a container of preservation solution. They place the package with the donor's blood sample in a plastic cooler filled with ice. Heart in a box or beating heart technology is an experimental heart transplant organ-preservation system.
The
Organ Care System (OCS) lets the donor's heart continue functioning outside the
body while the heart is being transported. The system supplies donor hearts
with oxygen and nutrients by passing fluids through the heart, and also
measures and displays preservation parameters, such as pressure and
temperature. OCS is designed to better preserve, assess, and maintain donor
organs, potentially reducing the number of unused organs by addressing the key
limitations of current preservation methods.
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Heart transport systems are the supply line for organ transportation. Organs can be successfully preserved with the help of organ preservation solutions. Organs, such as the heart, are sensitive to the environment outside the body, and thus, they are kept in preservation solutions that have a composition similar to that of human body fluids. Heart transplantation is an important option for people with end-stage heart disease. Over 2,000 heart transplants are performed each year in the United States. This number has remained relatively stable due to a lack of donors.
Thus,
there is an increasing demand for heart transport systems around the world, as
more than 3,500 heart transplants are performed each year worldwide, and more
than half of which are in the U.S. In November 2021, Paragonix announced a
major milestone of 1,000 preserved donor heart transports with the Paragonix
SherpaPak System. The largest heart transplant programs in the U.S. as well as
other programs worldwide now trust the Paragonix SherpaPak System to preserve
and transport critical donor hearts to their recipient donors.