The Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology has announced a new innovation for transporting donor hearts via ambulance for transplantation into another person, allowing for transportation lasting over 6 hours, compared to the previous method that preserved heart viability for a maximum of 4-5 hours.
According to the institute's press service, the new technique developed by the institute's scientists enables, for the first time in Russia, the transportation of the donor heart inside an ambulance at human body temperature, thereby extending the permissible transportation duration.
The new technology relies on the use of the solution "Normacore," which contains sugars and ions that stop the heartbeat of heart tissues while maintaining their viability at body temperature. The institute announced that in the near future, the research team plans to adapt the technology for the transportation of other internal organs as well.
