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Device failure-wise, it just goes along with what I had mentioned before, how any time that there's even a device failure, any time they could potentially even put the organ at risk or the fact that a recipient will be put under anesthesia waiting for the organ and a device malfunction occurs, and you lose the organ? That's a never event. Or you're going out to—maybe their team is going out, and they're putting the heart on the cannula and bringing it through, but then they damage the lungs for another center, that happens more often than you think. I've heard of—this just happened—I won't name of the center but someone from there reached out to me and said, “Has this ever happened to you guys?” And they literally took the sternal saw, and sawed straight through the liver for another center's recipient.”", "attrs": null, "subkind": "paragraph", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "523ba2fe-e35a-4c9b-8447-13af6c2579eb", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.07, "w": 0.86, "x": 0.07, "y": 0.69 }, "kind": "paragraph", "text": "A: “Yeah. I saw the pictures. This is like, I could do it better than this. They were procuring for the heart. You see what I'm saying? 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You said adverse events, so you don't lose the organ. What are you referring to? 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