A method for "reanimating" organ donors' hearts works just as well as the standard approach to collecting hearts for transplantation, new trial data shows. If widely applied, the method could increase the heart donor pool by an estimated 30%.
"Honestly if we could snap our fingers and just get people to use this, I think it probably would go up even more than that," Dr. Jacob Schroder, a transplant surgeon at the Duke University School of Medicine who led the trial, told The Associated Press. "This really should be standard of care."
