{"id":17011,"date":"2018-02-20T15:41:01","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T15:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/?p=17011"},"modified":"2018-02-20T15:41:01","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T15:41:01","slug":"heart-box-dead-hearts-back-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/en\/heart-box-dead-hearts-back-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Device can bring dead hearts back to life!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-center fusion-title-size-one\"><div class=\"title-sep-container title-sep-container-left\"><div class=\"title-sep sep-double sep-solid\" style=\"border-color:#5f80a0;\"><\/div><\/div><h1 class=\"title-heading-center\"><span style=\"color: #5f80a0;\">This Box Can Bring Dead Hearts Back To Life\u00a0<\/span><\/h1><div class=\"title-sep-container title-sep-container-right\"><div class=\"title-sep sep-double sep-solid\" style=\"border-color:#5f80a0;\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heart.org\/HEARTORG\/Conditions\/CongenitalHeartDefects\/CareTreatmentforCongenitalHeartDefects\/Heart-Transplant_UCM_307731_Article.jsp#.WorMjqjwaUk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Heart transplants<\/a> is a surgical transplant performed on patients with <strong>heart<\/strong> <strong>failure<\/strong> or severe <strong>artery<\/strong> <strong>disease<\/strong>. The procedure consist of taking a <strong>functioning<\/strong> <strong>heart<\/strong> from a recently <strong>deceased<\/strong> <strong>organ<\/strong> <strong>donor<\/strong> and <strong>implanting<\/strong> it into the patient. Approximately <strong>3,500<\/strong> heart transplants are <strong>performed<\/strong> every <strong>year<\/strong> in the <strong>world<\/strong>. It is <strong>not<\/strong> considered to be a <strong>cure<\/strong> but a <strong>life-saving<\/strong> treatment to <strong>improve<\/strong> the life of the patients for about <strong>15<\/strong> years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This <strong>technology<\/strong> is designed by a company called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.co.uk\/article\/hearts-brought-back-to-life-for-transplant\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Transmedics<\/a> to keep <strong>hearts working<\/strong> after the donor&rsquo;s <strong>death<\/strong>. It <strong>supplies<\/strong> the heart with <strong>oxygen<\/strong>, <strong>blood<\/strong>, and <strong>nutrients<\/strong> and then it can be <strong>surgically<\/strong> implanted in another <strong>patient<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Usually the <strong>heart<\/strong> is <strong>cooled<\/strong> down while still inside the <strong>deceased<\/strong>-patient. <strong>Cold<\/strong> <strong>temperatures<\/strong> <strong>slow<\/strong> down the heart&rsquo;s <strong>metabolism<\/strong> and gives <strong>time<\/strong> to <strong>surgeons<\/strong> to <strong>transfer<\/strong> it before its <strong>cells<\/strong> start to <strong>break<\/strong> down.\u00a0The <strong>\"\u00a0<\/strong><strong>heart-in-a-box<\/strong><strong>\"\u00a0<\/strong> could be a solution for preparing hearts for <strong>transplantation<\/strong> by keeping the <strong>heart<\/strong> <strong>alive<\/strong> <strong>automatically<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Watch the video to see how it works.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"fusion-video fusion-youtube\" style=\"max-width:1200px;max-height:600px;\"><div class=\"video-shortcode\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l6-Zle7sDSw?wmode=transparent&autoplay=0\" width=\"1200\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":17078,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","myguten_meta_block_field":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}