Patent ID: 7811808

Claim:
A portable preservation apparatus of the cold storage type for a donor organ, comprising: (a) a cooling box having a lid, said cooling box having an interior surface; (b) a package for containing a donor organ in preservation fluid; (c) at least one perfusion pump mounted at least partly in the lid; (d) a connector; (e) at least one oxygenator for oxygenating preservation fluid; (f) an oxygen container for supplying oxygen to the oxygenator; (g) one or more electronic modules for controlling the perfusion pump; and (h) a power supply module for supplying power to the apparatus; wherein the cooling box has an organ chamber for receiving the package, the lid of the cooling box having a side which operatively faces the organ chamber, the connector being detachably connected to the lid on the side of the lid which operatively faces the organ chamber, the package being detachably and sealingly connected to the connector and extending from the connector in the organ chamber, the connector being provided with one or more passages to permit preservation fluid in the package to be pumped by the perfusion pump, the connector and the package being configured and sealed so that preservation fluid in the package will not contact (1) the interior surface of the cooling box and (2) the lid.