article_snippet: In this case, Organ Care System came from a donor after a donor heart and lungs had stopped functioning.
article_snippet: Surgeons at Papworth Hospital in Cambridgeshire restored function to the heart before placing the heart on an Organ Care System to maintain an Organ Care System quality before an Organ Care System was transplanted.
article_snippet: Surgeons at Papworth Hospital in Cambridgeshire Cambridgeshire restored function to the heart before placing the heart on an Organ Care System to maintain an Organ Care System quality before an Organ Care System was transplanted to 60-year-old Huseyin Ulucan from London .
article_snippet: 171 heart transplant carried out using the Organ Care System – also known as ‘heart in a box’ –
article_snippet: took place in St Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney last year, involving a heart that had stopped beating for 20 minutes.
article_snippet: the Organ Care System allows the donor heart to be connected to a sterile circuit of blood which restores the heartbeat and keeps the Organ Care System warm, limiting the adverse effects associated with previous methods which saw hearts kept on ice.
article_snippet: Using the preservative solution and the heart in a box, the organ is able to be reanimated, preserved and assessed until the organ is ready to go into a recipient.
article_snippet: It is not clear how long after the organ stopped beating that the doctors at Papworth restarted the heart.
article_snippet: the doctors at Papworth used ultrasound to assess the function of the restarted heart for 50 minutes before approving ultrasound for transplantation.
article_snippet: the doctors at Papworth then removed ultrasound from the donor, placed ultrasound in the heart-in-a-box machine which perfused the organ with blood and nutrients, and kept ultrasound beating for three hours until the operation went ahead.
article_snippet: The Organ Care System (OCS), developed by TransMedics, allows donor hearts to continue functioning in a near-perfect state outside the body during transport and until the body is placed into the body of the recipient .
highlights_snippet: Heart was placed on Organ Care System to maintain quality before the op .
  