[Text on screen: 35 MILLION AMERICANS SUFFER FROM CHRONIC LUNG DISEASE]

Speaker 1: It took every ounce of energy for a man to take a breath.

[Video clip of man in hospital using a walker with the following text on screen: EASY BREATHING
NEW DOME PROTECTS LUNG BEFORE TRANSPLANT]

Speaker 2: I couldn't get out of this chair and walk to you.

[Text on screen: LUNG TRANSPLANT]

[MUSIC]

[Text on screen: ROUGHLY 80% OF LUNGS
DO NOT MEET THE CRITERIA FOR TRANSPLANTATION]

[Text on Screen: The Ohio State University
Wexner Medical Center
Comprehensive Transplant Center]

Speaker 1: Well, now there's new technology being tested, right here in central Ohio, that could change that.

[Video clip of an ex-vivo lung perfusion]

[Video clip from NBC4 News with the following text on screen:
FUTURISTIC TUNE-UP
MATT BARNES
@MATT_NBC4]

Matt Barnes: The OSU Wexner Medical Center just became the first in Ohio to offer a futuristic tune-up. Doctors are now using new technology called the Ex-Vivo Lung Perfusion.

[Text on screen: NEW THIS MORNING
"FUTURISTIC LUNG TUNE-UP"
Ex-Vivo Lung Perfusion
Actively & routinely repair organs
Potential to save 35-million Americans]

Speaker 1: EVLP allows the chance to change that by essentially saving lungs damaged by severe cases of pneumonia or excess fluid, for example.

[Video clip of ex-vivo lung perfusion machine being used]

[Text on screen: EASY BREATHING
NEW DOME PROTECTS LUNG BEFORE TRANSPLANT]

[Text on screen: DR. BRYAN WHITSON
OSU WEXNER MEDICAL CENTER]

Bryan Whitson, MD: It's a technology that lets us resuscitate and recondition lungs and organs prior to transplant.

[News articles shown titled, "New Technology helps to protect lungs before transplants," "University hospital offers futuristic lung donation tune-up," "Damaged Lungs Repaired In Four Hours At The Ohio State University," "Ohio Surgeons Use Restored Lungs In Transplant," "Lung treatment breathes life into patients," "Expanded hope - OSU Surgeons use new procedure to restore damaged donor lungs"]

[Text on screen: The FIRST to test EVLP in Ohio
Potentially doubling the number of available lungs
Increasing the number of lifesaving lung transplants]

Speaker 2: I've been given life twice, once by my God, and second by another family that said, "Hey, let him have these lungs."

[Text on screen: Less than 2,000 lung transplants are performed in the U.S. each year
We have performed over 8,500 lifesaving transplants in almost 50 years
lung
heart
heart-lung
kidney
lung-kidney
living donor kidney
liver
pancreas
kidney-pancreas
The Ohio State University
Wexner Medical Center
Comprehensive Transplant Center]