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  • How A Human Lung Is Kept Alive And Breathing For A Transplant

    How A Human Lung Is Kept Alive And Breathing For A Transplant

    It’s a pumping lung in a box, basically. Al Jazeera America specifies that its more properly known as the Organ Care System (OCS), but it’s basically a human donor lung being kept alive and breathing out of the body inside a box. The OCS machine is used to keep the blood and oxygen flowing to…