ProCure On-Demand’s 500th transplanted organ, being announced today, is emblematic of the gaps and inefficiencies in the current transplant system that the organ recovery, technology and logistics company is regularly solving.
The case involving the transplant of the 500th organ underscores ProCure’s reputation for quality work, efficient logistics and swift turnaround times, which have become integral to their success. With less than five hours to recover bilateral lungs, ProCure tapped into its unique Recovery Team Network, to deploy a surgeon within seven miles from the donor hospital. Soon after, the lungs were on a 700-mile flight and transplanted into a recipient.
Within a day of the transplant, the recipient of the gift of new lungs was breathing on their own and was able to get back home to…