what technology is used to to monitor a human organ system
TransMedics announces that its OCS Heart technology was used successfully to preserve and assess the world s first series of three successful adult heart transplant procedures from hearts donated from donors after circulatory death (DCD) by the St. Vincent s Hospital Heart Transplant team.ince the advent of organ transplantation, the cornerstone of organ preservation has been cold ischemic storage (placing organs on ice). Although this method is intended to reduce the extent of organ damage during transport, significant deterioration of the donated organ still occurs.