There are roughly 100,000 people on organ transplant waiting lists in the United States right now. About 20 of them die every single day. Not because there aren't enough willing donors but because of how we transport and preserve organs.
Traditionally, when a donor organ becomes available, it gets put on ice in a cooler and rushed to the recipient hospital. Ice. Like your groceries. And the problem is that this method called static cold storage gives surgeons very little time. A donated heart, for example, starts deteriorating about 4 hours after retrieval. If you can't get it to the patient in time, it's unusable. Organs from donors far away often get rejected simply because the logistics are too difficult.
TransMedics built the solution to that.
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