SickKids VS
SickKids VS
SickKids Foundation
VS Broken Hearts: Building a Machine to Keep Donor Hearts Beating Outside the Body
13 minutes Posted Apr 16, 2020 at 9:00 am.
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50 kids in Canada are waitlisted for a new heart each year. Of those, 30-35 will get one, while others must keep waiting, some for years. But SickKids surgeon Dr. Osami Honjo thinks he has a solution. A way to expand the donor pool by keeping hearts beating outside the body. He calls it the Heart in a Box.