The miracle of organ donation — and a breakthrough for the future | Abbas Ardehali

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🗓️ 15 March 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Organ transplants save lives, but they come with challenges: every minute a healthy donated organ is on ice increases risk. And even if things go perfectly, rejection of the organ is still possible. Cardiothoracic surgeon Abbas Ardehali introduces cutting-edge medical advances in machine perfusion — a portable platform that keeps organs alive outside of the body — that could help put time back on the patient's side.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective.
0:02.0	Audio Collective.
0:04.0	You're listening to Ted Talks Daily.
0:10.0	I'm Elise Hugh.
0:12.0	A single organ donor can save up to eight lives, but the
0:15.4	Translance system faces a number of challenges. In his 2023 talk from the Ted
0:20.5	Immigrant diaspora Iranian event,
0:22.8	Surgeon Abis Ardah Holly offers a vision
0:25.2	for addressing the biggest issues facing successful transplants
0:28.1	today so that donors can help save even more lives
0:31.5	after the break.
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0:45.0	It was in November of 2020 at the height of the COVID pandemic
0:50.0	that we got a call from a local hospital
0:52.8	that they have a 22-year-old gentleman
0:55.4	who has COVID pneumonia
0:57.1	and he has difficulty breathing.
0:59.7	They had to sedate him and put a breathing tube in him and wanted to see if they could transfer him to UCLA for higher level of care.
1:08.0	When he arrived, his blood oxygen level was quite low, and we had no choice but to connect them to an artificial
1:14.8	lung machine. Over the course of the next few days to a week he slowly woke up
1:21.0	started walking around, regained his strength.
1:25.2	And it became quite clear that his lungs are irreversibly damaged by COVID virus.
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