Novel Post Mortal Organ Preserving ECMO in Non–Heart‐Beating Mouse

Objectives: Despite 100,000 organs transplanted yearly, there is up to several times more demand for organ donation. Critical demand for single- or multiple-organ donation and high mortality of patients being on the waiting list leads to search for alternate ways of organ source. Despite improved CPR strategy, survival rate after sudden cardiac arrest or stroke still varies from 5 to 10%. In almost all death cases, no organ preserving strategy is used or protocol exists. Nevertheless, CPR with routinized ECMO is being discussed. Therefore, the aim of our study was to develop a cadaveric ECMO based organ preservation after acute death in a non-heart-beating mouse model.