Conversation Series: DCD in Heart Transplant - The Case for Normothermic Regional Perfusion
Using DCD hearts has the potential to greatly expand the number of donated hearts shorting the wait times and providing more life-saving transplants for people critically in need of a transplant. Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VCMU) uses a normothermic regional perfusion system to reanimate hearts prior to transplanting them and is one of five centers participating in clinical trials in DCD hearts.
