This 'box' can bring non-beating hearts back to life

A donated heart is examined and perfused with blood while being prepared for transplant; this new technology resuscitates a stopped heart, keeping it pumping outside of the body until it can be transplanted into a waiting patient. — TNS

For the first time in Illinois, United States, surgeons have successfully taken a heart that stopped beating inside a patient and transplanted it into another person with the help of a new, science fiction-like device.

Surgeons at Northwestern Memorial Hospital announced last week that they performed a heart transplant in mid-October using a machine nicknamed “heart-in-a-box.”