Organ Preservation System — Questions and answers

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What big problem did Dr. Alexis Carrel want to solve?

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  1. How to build faster airplanes.
  2. Organs quickly breaking down outside the body. ✓
  3. Where to find new types of medicine.
  4. How to make a laboratory bigger.

Answer: Organs quickly breaking down outside the body.

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What two important things did Dr. Carrel say were needed to help organs survive outside the body?

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  1. Just simple refrigeration and a warm blanket.
  2. Absolute sterility and a continuous, oxygenated nutrient flow. ✓
  3. Lots of sunshine and fresh air.
  4. Only looking through a microscope for a long time.

Answer: Absolute sterility and a continuous, oxygenated nutrient flow.

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What simple methods did doctors use to try and keep organs alive before better systems were invented?

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  1. Using very fancy machines.
  2. Simple cooling or saline baths (salty water). ✓
  3. Putting organs in a very hot place.
  4. Giving organs special medicine.

Answer: Simple cooling or saline baths (salty water).

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Who was the famous aviator and engineer who helped Dr. Carrel?

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  1. A well-known painter.
  2. A brave firefighter.
  3. Charles Lindbergh. ✓
  4. A chef from France.

Answer: Charles Lindbergh.

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What was one of the big challenges Lindbergh had when designing the organ pump?

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  1. Making the pump look very pretty.
  2. Ensuring the device was perfectly sterile and gentle for the organs. ✓
  3. Deciding what color to paint the machine.
  4. Finding enough space in the laboratory.

Answer: Ensuring the device was perfectly sterile and gentle for the organs.

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What was the name of the special pump that Dr. Carrel and Lindbergh invented?

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  1. The Magic Organ Saver.
  2. The Flying Heart Machine.
  3. The Carrel-Lindbergh pump. ✓
  4. The Super Sterile Device.

Answer: The Carrel-Lindbergh pump.

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What important things did the Carrel-Lindbergh pump do to keep organs healthy?

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  1. It played soft music for the organs.
  2. It gave oxygen, nutrients, took away waste, and kept the right temperature. ✓
  3. It put the organs in a dark, quiet box.
  4. It made the organs glow in the dark.

Answer: It gave oxygen, nutrients, took away waste, and kept the right temperature.

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How did Dr. Carrel's discoveries help modern organ transplantation?

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  1. He taught doctors how to paint pictures of organs.
  2. His ideas on keeping organs sterile and with continuous flow created the basic rules for keeping organs alive. ✓
  3. He helped doctors learn to fly planes to deliver organs.
  4. He wrote a book about famous scientists.

Answer: His ideas on keeping organs sterile and with continuous flow created the basic rules for keeping organs alive.

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What has the progress in organ preservation helped to achieve in medicine?

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  1. It helped build taller buildings.
  2. It has saved many lives and made organ transplantation more possible. ✓
  3. It taught people how to cook better meals.
  4. It made cars run on water.

Answer: It has saved many lives and made organ transplantation more possible.

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