The future of organ donation has been changed forever thanks to a new device, aptly named 'Heart in a Box', that allows a heart from a deceased person to resume beating.
Transplant surgeons have started using the ‘Heart in a Box’ device, which allows them to ‘reanimate’ hearts from people who have recently died and use the organs to save others. The device is a wheeled cart with an oxygen supply, a sterile chamber, and tubing to clamp onto a donor heart and keep it fed…
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