July 2024 | Vol. 4 Iss. 7
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INTERMOUNTAIN HEALTH’S TRANSPLANT PROGRAM USES NEW ORGAN SAVING DEVICE By Becky Ginos | becky.g@davisjournal.com MURRAY—A new state-of-the-art organ saving device being used by Intermountain Health’s Transplant Program has the potential to save more patients’ lives who are waiting for liver transplants that might otherwise die before their name comes up. Intermountain is the first in the state to use the device. The OrganOx is a liver pump that keeps the organ in a near-physiological state outside the body, providing continuous perfusion of oxygenated blood, medication and nutrients at normal body temperature, mimicking the conditions inside the body, according to Intermountain. “This will increase access to organs that would not previously be used because we thought it was too damaged,” said Dr. Jean Botha, medical director of Intermountain Health’s abdominal transplant program and Intermountain Primary Children’s Hospital’s pediatric transplant program. “The pump allows us to assess the viability and we can see if this organ is likely to function or not before we transplant it.” The waiting list at Intermountain is down to 22 days so from the time patients get on the waiting list to the time they get transplanted is a mere three weeks, he said. “It’s this kind of technology that has allowed us to transplant patients faster and sooner. Because we can transplant patients sooner, that means the risk of dying on a waiting list is markedly reduced.” Continued page 4 Dr. Jean Botha, medical director of Intermountain Health’s abdominal transplant program and Intermountain Primary Children’s Hospital’s pediatric transplant program explains how the OrganOx liver pump works. Photo by Becky Ginos
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