My apologies 😅 I didn’t mean to leave out critical team members. We absolutely couldn’t perform these operations without the help of our perfusionist colleagues, nursing staff and others who help with the case.

In a hospital setting that is equipped with staff and materials to provide proper care, people can survive days or more attached to a device like this on a regular basis for reasons beyond a transplant surgery. Often the survival of a transplant patient comes down to something other than the bypass machine including post-operative complications and immunosuppression

The surgeons and anesthesiologist place the patient on a heart-lung bypass device prior to removing the heart. This machine does the work to oxygenate and pump blood through the body during the transplant procedure.