A Huntington Beach man’s life was saved after he received the nation’s first minimally-invasive double-lung transplant surgery. Frank Coburn, 57, had .
Man receives first minimally invasive double-lung transplant in US
LOS ANGELES (KCAL, KCBS) A Huntington Beach man has had a second chance at life after he received the nation’s first ever minimally invasive double-lung transplant.
57-year-old Frank Coburn was beginning his second chapter, enjoying life with his loving bride of more than 30 years, and the success of his two adult daughters, when the avid biker started experiencing shortness of breath.
57-year-old Frank Coburn was beginning his second chapter, enjoying life with his loving bride of more than 30 years, and the success of his two adult daughters, when the avid biker started experiencing shortness of breath.
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Heart in a Box Technology Expands Heart Transplant Window
Smidt Heart Institute uses Transmedics Organ Care System (OCS) to increase the geographic area of service to enable more organ transplants
The Transmedics Organ Care System (OCS) Heart, or “Heart in a Box,” enables transplant surgeons to travel to much farther destinations to procure transplant hearts by acting as a miniature intensive care unit that keeps the heart alive.
April 5, 2021 Smidt Heart Institute transplant surgeons Dominic Emerson, M.D., and Pedro Catarino, M.D. know how to be spontaneous. At any given moment, they can get the call that a donor heart or lungs are available, requiring them to quickly board a private aircraft to procure the vital organs. But until recently, those flights were quick jaunts lasting no more than four hours the time a donor heart can survive on ice. Now that is all changing, thanks to a medical device called the Transmedics Organ Care System (OCS) Heart, or “Heart in a Box