<p>50 kids in Canada are waitlisted for a new heart each year. Of those, 30-35 will get one, while others must keep waiting, some for years. But SickKids surgeon Dr. Osami Honjo thinks he has a solution. A way to expand the donor pool by keeping hearts beating outside the body. He calls it the Heart in a Box.</p>

50 kids in Canada are waitlisted for a new heart each year. Of those, 30-35 will get one, while others must keep waiting, some for years. But SickKids surgeon Dr. Osami Honjo thinks he has a solution. A way to expand the donor pool by keeping hearts beating outside the body. He calls it the Heart in a Box.

VS Broken Hearts: Building a Machine to Keep Donor Hearts Beating Outside the Body

Big breakthroughs often start with a simple question. SickKids VS takes you behind the scenes of remarkable discoveries to answer questions like: Can a $5 kit save a newborn’s life? Have doctors uncovered a new leukemia treatment? What happens when a lifesaving device disrupts daily living? Join us to heal the future.

(For bonus content or to advance similar research, please visit SickKidsFoundation.com/podcast . The SickKids VS Podcast is generously sponsored by CIBC and edited by Quill).

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Big breakthroughs often start with a simple question. SickKids VS takes you behind the scenes of remarkable discoveries to answer questions like: Can a $5 kit save a newborn’s life? Have doctors uncovered a new leukemia treatment? What happens when a lifesaving device disrupts daily living? Join us to heal the future. (For bonus content or to advance similar research, please visit SickKidsFoundation.com/podcast . The SickKids VS Podcast is generously sponsored by CIBC and edited by Quill).

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