{"id":4169,"date":"2022-04-09T08:40:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-09T15:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allocare.caredx.com\/?p=4169"},"modified":"2022-08-16T14:11:12","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T21:11:12","slug":"lungs-in-a-box-procedure-could-drastically-reduce-organ-waitlists-doctors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/indexphp\/post\/2022\/04\/09\/lungs-in-a-box-procedure-could-drastically-reduce-organ-waitlists-doctors\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Lungs In A Box&#8217; Procedure Could Drastically Reduce Organ Waitlists: Doctors"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"simplefavorite-button has-count loading\" data-postid=\"4169\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Loading<span class=\"sf-icon-spinner-wrapper\"><i class=\"sf-icon-spinner\"><\/i><\/span><\/span>\n<p><em>A unique lung transplant procedure has arrived at Northwestern Medicine in downtown Chicago<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A unique procedure at Northwestern could cut down long waiting lists for those in need of a lung transplant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nicknamed \u201clungs in a box,\u201d the ex-vivo lung perfusion procedure allows donated lungs to be examined for hours at a time on a machine \u2013 after being extracted from the body. The organs are then hooked up to a machine that simulates the breathing of a human body.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcchicago.com\/news\/local\/lungs-in-a-box-procedure-could-drastically-reduce-organ-waitlists-doctors\/2801836\/\">Read\/watch the full story<\/a> on NBC 5 Chicago here.<\/p>\n<span class=\"simplefavorite-button has-count loading\" data-postid=\"4169\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Loading<span class=\"sf-icon-spinner-wrapper\"><i class=\"sf-icon-spinner\"><\/i><\/span><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loading A unique lung transplant procedure has arrived at Northwestern Medicine in downtown Chicago A unique procedure at Northwestern could cut down long waiting lists for those in need of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/indexphp\/post\/2022\/04\/09\/lungs-in-a-box-procedure-could-drastically-reduce-organ-waitlists-doctors\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;\u2018Lungs In A Box&#8217; Procedure Could Drastically Reduce Organ Waitlists: Doctors&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":208,"featured_media":1654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":0,"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_rules":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_description":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_exclusions":"","_ecp_custom_2":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45,912,8],"tags":[349,180],"post_format":[],"Dislikes":"","Likes":"","simplefavorites_count":"","views":"1386","post_likes_plusCounter":"","post_dislikes_plusCounter":"","acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4169"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/208"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4170,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4169\/revisions\/4170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4169"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=4169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}