The Lifeport Kidney Transporter : body
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How did this design improve life?:
The LifePort Kidney Transporter preserves and protects a donated kidney during the sometimes long, cold journey from recovery to transplantation. Fully supporting the organ with arterial flow, pressure, and pulse, Lifeport functions much like a hibernative surrogate body. This portable device can safely be carted through a hospital, driven over city streets, or shipped cross country in air cargo, displaying and recording vital signs all along the way. LifePort is today helping surgeons in Asia, Europe, North America and South America perform more transplants with better outcomes.
In a study presented to the XIX International Congress of the Transplantation Society (2002) Jacobi et al found that machine preservation improved the condition of kidneys and was an effective organ evaluation tool. The study determined that use of the machine perfusion protocol increased the number of transplantable kidneys, rescuing 50% of the study group’s kidneys that might otherwise have been discarded.
A retrospective review of transplant data indicates that these perfused kidneys function better after transplant than statically stored kidneys. This review in the USA showed that if perfusion was the standard of care nationwide, the resulting combination of more organs and improved outcomes could save the healthcare system more that $1 billion annually.
Today (2005) the LifePort is in use in nine transplant centres in the UK, two in Spain and eight in Belgium and is about to be used in The Netherlands and Germany.
The LifePort Kidney Transporter preserves and protects a donated kidney during the sometimes long, cold journey from recovery to transplantation. Fully supporting the organ with arterial flow, pressure, and pulse, Lifeport functions much like a hibernative surrogate body. This portable device can safely be carted through a hospital, driven over city streets, or shipped cross country in air cargo, displaying and recording vital signs all along the way. LifePort is today helping surgeons in Asia, Europe, North America and South America perform more transplants with better outcomes.
In a study presented to the XIX International Congress of the Transplantation Society (2002) Jacobi et al found that machine preservation improved the condition of kidneys and was an effective organ evaluation tool. The study determined that use of the machine perfusion protocol increased the number of transplantable kidneys, rescuing 50% of the study group’s kidneys that might otherwise have been discarded.
A retrospective review of transplant data indicates that these perfused kidneys function better after transplant than statically stored kidneys. This review in the USA showed that if perfusion was the standard of care nationwide, the resulting combination of more organs and improved outcomes could save the healthcare system more that $1 billion annually.
Today (2005) the LifePort is in use in nine transplant centres in the UK, two in Spain and eight in Belgium and is about to be used in The Netherlands and Germany.
Name of Designer(s):
IDEO: a team of UK and American designers and engineers: - Andrew Burroughs, Dickon Isaacs, Stacy Benjamin, Dick Grant, John Grimley, Jerry O’Leary, Anton Schubert, Amy Schwartz, Paul South, Eric Sugalski - - Organ Recovery Systems: - David Kravitz, Douglas Schein, John Brassil -
IDEO: a team of UK and American designers and engineers: - Andrew Burroughs, Dickon Isaacs, Stacy Benjamin, Dick Grant, John Grimley, Jerry O’Leary, Anton Schubert, Amy Schwartz, Paul South, Eric Sugalski - - Organ Recovery Systems: - David Kravitz, Douglas Schein, John Brassil -
Designers professional status:
Professional
Professional
Status of realization:
Realized
Realized
Kind of design:
Tangible
Tangible
Produced by:
Organ Recovery Systems
Organ Recovery Systems
Year of production, realization or publishing:
2003
2003
Designed in country:
United States
United States
Used on continents:
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
Short description of design:
The LifePort Kidney Transporter preserves and protects a donated kidney during the sometimes long, cold journey from recovery to transplantation. Fully supporting the organ with arterial flow, pressure, and pulse, Lifeport functions much like a hibernative surrogate body.
The LifePort Kidney Transporter preserves and protects a donated kidney during the sometimes long, cold journey from recovery to transplantation. Fully supporting the organ with arterial flow, pressure, and pulse, Lifeport functions much like a hibernative surrogate body.
Functionallity and use of design:
The LifePort kidney Transporter gently perfuses kidneys with cold physiologic solution to improve orden condition during transport to transplant recipient. The device prolongs cold storage time from the current 18 hours to 35 hours or more.
The LifePort kidney Transporter gently perfuses kidneys with cold physiologic solution to improve orden condition during transport to transplant recipient. The device prolongs cold storage time from the current 18 hours to 35 hours or more.
Drawbacks of life improvement:
none known
none known
Research and need:
The product addresses the serious need for donation organs. When creating this portable device it was vital that the extensive engineering complexities were solved, and it had to be easily transported by a wide variety of hospital personnel and air and other transport personnel. User observations were carried outon products in similar categories to ensure its high portability, robustness, ease of use and clinical efficiency. In addition an Engineering focus on lightweight materials, low power consumption, thermal efficiency, fail-safety, clinical integration, and organ preservation science became key aspects of the LifePort design.
The product addresses the serious need for donation organs. When creating this portable device it was vital that the extensive engineering complexities were solved, and it had to be easily transported by a wide variety of hospital personnel and air and other transport personnel. User observations were carried outon products in similar categories to ensure its high portability, robustness, ease of use and clinical efficiency. In addition an Engineering focus on lightweight materials, low power consumption, thermal efficiency, fail-safety, clinical integration, and organ preservation science became key aspects of the LifePort design.
