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08-31-2015, 05:16 AM
Amazing video shows donor organ beating OUTSIDE the body as pioneering 'Heart In a Box' technology allows life-saving transplant for young father
Lee Hall was on ‘borrowed time’ after his mechanical heart began to fail
The 26-year-old leapt at the chance for to receive non-beating heart
Pioneering technology keeps heart beating until moment of transplant
Amazing clip shows revolutionary box that saved Lee's life in action
By KHALEDA RAHMAN FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 06:10 EST, 30 August 2015 | UPDATED: 11:29 EST, 30 August 2015
This amazing video shows the revolutionary 'Heart in a Box' technology that keeps a donor organ pumping until the moment of transplant in action.
Lee Hall, 26, was on ‘borrowed time’ after the mechanical heart that had kept him alive for five years began to fail.
But the young father's life was saved after he received a transplant thanks to the pioneering technology that keeps a heart pumping outside the body.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7e8KwQg3qKk
WHAT IS A 'HEART IN A BOX' TRANSPLANT?
Previously, all donated organs in the UK are from those declared brain dead, but who still have blood pumping around their bodies.
Now, doctors have developed a new method of organ retrieval - which has only been carried out a small number of times in the UK - which means surgeons can consider using hearts that have actually stopped beating in transplants.
The heart must be resuscitated by pumping warm oxygenated blood through the heart muscle.
Organ retrieval technology, known as the Organ Care System (OCS) is used.
The OCS, sometimes referred to as 'heart in a box', allows doctors to maintain and assess organ function and suitability for transplantation.
The technology means a donor heart can be maintained for up to eight hours outside the body, compared with a maximum of three to four hours when using the traditional method of ice preservation.
Therefore, organs can be retrieved from further afield, increasing the chance of recipients receiving a life-saving transplant.
Dr Bowles, who specialises in transplant technology at London's Harefield Hospital, said: 'The box has two jobs. It keeps a heart beating instead of it being put on ice until it is restarted in a recipient. Research shows that hearts kept beating do better.
'Secondly, it now allows to use hearts on non beating donors because these hearts can be got beating again in the box on their way to the donor.
'Being able to use these hearts alone will increase the number of transplants by 30 per cent.'
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/08/02/article-2714075-2034479900000578-445_634x476.jpg
Lee Hall was on ‘borrowed time’ after his mechanical heart began to fail
The 26-year-old leapt at the chance for to receive non-beating heart
Pioneering technology keeps heart beating until moment of transplant
Amazing clip shows revolutionary box that saved Lee's life in action
By KHALEDA RAHMAN FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 06:10 EST, 30 August 2015 | UPDATED: 11:29 EST, 30 August 2015
This amazing video shows the revolutionary 'Heart in a Box' technology that keeps a donor organ pumping until the moment of transplant in action.
Lee Hall, 26, was on ‘borrowed time’ after the mechanical heart that had kept him alive for five years began to fail.
But the young father's life was saved after he received a transplant thanks to the pioneering technology that keeps a heart pumping outside the body.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7e8KwQg3qKk
WHAT IS A 'HEART IN A BOX' TRANSPLANT?
Previously, all donated organs in the UK are from those declared brain dead, but who still have blood pumping around their bodies.
Now, doctors have developed a new method of organ retrieval - which has only been carried out a small number of times in the UK - which means surgeons can consider using hearts that have actually stopped beating in transplants.
The heart must be resuscitated by pumping warm oxygenated blood through the heart muscle.
Organ retrieval technology, known as the Organ Care System (OCS) is used.
The OCS, sometimes referred to as 'heart in a box', allows doctors to maintain and assess organ function and suitability for transplantation.
The technology means a donor heart can be maintained for up to eight hours outside the body, compared with a maximum of three to four hours when using the traditional method of ice preservation.
Therefore, organs can be retrieved from further afield, increasing the chance of recipients receiving a life-saving transplant.
Dr Bowles, who specialises in transplant technology at London's Harefield Hospital, said: 'The box has two jobs. It keeps a heart beating instead of it being put on ice until it is restarted in a recipient. Research shows that hearts kept beating do better.
'Secondly, it now allows to use hearts on non beating donors because these hearts can be got beating again in the box on their way to the donor.
'Being able to use these hearts alone will increase the number of transplants by 30 per cent.'
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/08/02/article-2714075-2034479900000578-445_634x476.jpg