LifePort Kidney Transport

Transforming Preservation. Protecting the Gift of Life.

Designed with You in Mind

The LifePort Kidney Transporter product family is built to give you ultimate ease of use. When you’re in the field, speed matters. The integrated components of your LifePort Kidney Transporter system are easy to set up when it matters most.

This performance is supported by 10-year follow-up data published in the New England Journal of Medicine, reinforcing LifePort Kidney Transporter as the clinically validated standard in kidney preservation.

The complete LifePort Kidney Transporter system includes:

Perfusion Circuit to contain the kidney and perfusate under aseptic conditions during transport
Cannulas engineered for secure connection to various kidney vasculatures
Sterile Drape to maintain aseptic conditions while working inside the Perfusion Circuit
Preservation Solutions to maintain organ viability during preservation

Every donor organ is a gift that deserves to be protected. LifePort® hypothermic machine perfusion technology from Organ Recovery Systems has transformed organ preservation, giving transplant teams the confidence to transport and protect donor kidneys and livers, including those from marginal donors, with compelling clinical evidence behind every device.

Aurora BioScience is proud to be the exclusive distributor of the LifePort range across Australia and New Zealand, pairing world-leading preservation technology with local, on-the-ground clinical support.

Precision Monitoring & Tracking to Protect Every Gift

Each LifePort Kidney Transporter now features a custom transmitter, transforming how you monitor and manage your devices. These transmitters communicate encrypted LifePort data and location information to a secure web portal, enabling you to:

View and manage your entire LifePort fleet
Track perfusion cases and device locations
Review all LifePort and transmitter data and manage your organization’s account with three levels of access rights.

Enhanced functionalities include:

Continuous location reporting, even when LifePort is turned off
Prioritized communication protocols (GPS and cellular) for optimal tracking
Compliance with airline regulations, featuring automatic Flight Safe mode activation during air transport and re-establishing cellular communications within 15 minutes of landing

Built for Safety

Transporting a donated kidney safely is your highest priority.
Physical protections include:

Ultrasonic Bubble Detectors to prevent air from entering the vasculature
Static cold storage backup for ultimate safety
Surrounded by physiologic solution in Perfusion Circuit
Pressure-controlled pump letting you set the pressure based on kidney vasculature
Gentle flow increase during vasodilation to avoid barotrauma

When life is on the line, you need to move fast. Our LifePort Kidney Transporter is designed to be easy-to-use for ultimate transportability.
Features include:

Designed to pump OR to OR
Can pump end-ischemically if transportation is not available
Only 45 pounds (20.4 kg) fully loaded to allow for one person lift
Eliminates the need for separate cold storage

LifePort Kidney Transporter Travel Bag

Effortless handling and advanced protection to make sure you can get from the hospital to the airport to the OR, easily and safely. LifePort Kidney Transporter Travel Bag keeps you connected to all the vital statistics and information you need with the transparent Display Panel window.

LifePort Data Station

Our proprietary data-collection system lets you monitor the kidney in real-time, giving you the information you need. Kidney data may to be remotely monitored and downloaded rapidly via USB.

Control Panel and Display Interface

Make real-time clinical decisions with real-time data. Displays unique organ ID, real-time pressure, temperature, flow, and renal resistance perfusion data for better clinical decision making.

Unique Organ Record

The increase in the need for kidneys, the growth of donations, and the speed of travel demands easy and accurate record-keeping. Our data collection helps you protect yourself and the patients who count on you.

Why Choose LifePort?

Proven to improve patient outcomes. Compelling peer-reviewed evidence shows that hypothermic machine perfusion (HMP) with LifePort Kidney Transporter significantly improves both 1-year and 3-year graft survival compared with static cold storage, and reduces the risk of Delayed Graft Function (DGF) across all donor types.
Expands your donor pool. Routine use of LifePort with expanded criteria donor (ECD) kidneys and kidneys donated after cardiac death (DCD) allows greater utilisation of organs that were previously considered non-transplantable — without compromising outcomes.
Backed by national-scale evidence. France’s national HMP program for ECD kidneys, built around LifePort technology, lifted machine-perfused ECD kidneys from just 6% in 2011 to around 80% by 2018 — cutting the risk of DGF by up to 77% in paired-kidney comparisons and shortening hospital stays by 1.5 days on average, while delivering significant health-system cost savings.
Engineered for safety and speed. Ultrasonic bubble detectors, a pressure-controlled pump matched to kidney vasculature, static cold storage backup, and gentle flow control to avoid barotrauma are all built in — and at only 45 pounds fully loaded, the device allows for a one-person lift when every minute counts.
Backed by local, on-call support. Aurora BioScience and Organ Recovery Systems provide comprehensive on-site training, wet labs, and 24/7 access to expert clinical preservationists, so your transplant program keeps running smoothly.

The LifePort Range

LifePort® Kidney Transporter — Oxygenation Perfusion Circuit (LKT200X)

An optional upgrade for any existing LifePort Kidney Transporter, the Oxygenation Perfusion Circuit lets your team administer oxygen directly to the machine perfusion solution during setup, using an external oxygen source. Pre-charging the perfusate with 100% oxygen is simple and portable, and increases oxygen availability to the kidney during preservation — with the flexibility to use oxygenation only when it’s needed.

LifePort® Liver Transporter

LifePort Liver Transporter extends hypothermic machine perfusion to liver preservation, currently supported by the PILOT and PILOT_CA clinical studies tracking outcomes such as Early Allograft Dysfunction and Primary Non-function in orthotopic liver transplants across multiple centres. [Please confirm current Australian regulatory status before publishing this section.]

LifePort® Mobile App

Support that travels with your team. The LifePort mobile app puts guided, step-by-step troubleshooting, a full how-to video library covering setup through cleanup, and a searchable library of LifePort clinical evidence in the palm of your hand — plus one-tap access to the 24/7 Perfusion Helpline whenever you need it.

Your Dedicated Partner in Better Patient Outcomes

Bringing hypothermic machine perfusion into a transplant program is about more than the device. Aurora BioScience and Organ Recovery Systems provide comprehensive on-site and online training, wet labs, loaner devices, and a mobile troubleshooting app to help your transplant program run smoothly.

Our expert clinical preservationists are on call around the clock, ready to help with anything you need — supporting your mission is the heart of what we do.

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