Utah’s First Use of State-of-the-Art Organ-Saving Technology Announced By Intermountain Health Transplant

Intermountain Health’s Transplant Program is the first in Utah to use a new state-of-the-art organ-saving device that helps to maintain donated livers in a near-physiological state outside the body to enhance successful transplantation. This new organ-saving technology called the OrganOx, has helped Intermountain Health’s liver transplant program save precious organs and the lives of patients desperately awaiting donor organs to survive. The OrganOx is an innovative liver pump that provides continuous perfusion of oxygenated blood, medications, and nutrients at normal …