THE COLLECTION
Andrew Burroughs (British, born 1962), Dickon Isaacs (British, born 1971), Stacy Benjamin (American, born 1970), Dick Grant (British, born 1950), John Grimley (American, born 1971), Jerry O'Leary (British, born 1976), Anton Schubert (British, born 1968), Amy Schwartz (American, born 1958), Paul South (British, born 1959), and Eric Sugalski (American, born 1978), of IDEO (USA, est. 1991), David Kravitz (American, born 1957), Douglas Schein (American, born 1973), and John Brassil (American, born 1959), of Organ Recovery Systems (USA, est. 1998)
LifePort Kidney Transporter
- Manufacturer:
- Organ Recovery Systems
- Date:
- 1998
- Medium:
- Polyurethane, polystyrene, polycarbonate, and polyester
- Dimensions:
- 14 x 14 x 24" (35.6 x 35.6 x 61 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Organ Recovery Systems
- MoMA Number:
- 92.2006
Born out of Necessity
March 2, 2012–January 28, 2013
The LifePort Kidney Transporter provides an alternative to the standard cooler-and-ice method of organ storage and transportation. The perfusion system, housed in a case light enough for one person to carry, pumps the kidney with a liquid solution to improve its condition prior to transplantation, doubling its storage life and increasing the quality an quantity of available organs for transplant. There are almost 100,000 Americans in need of a kidney transplant; this device can potentially remove tens of thousands of patients from the waiting list and save the health-care system more than $1 billion annually.
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