Marius Berman, surgical lead for transplantation at Royal Papworth Hospital, said they were “very proud to have become the first UK hospital to use this machine” outside of clinical trials.
Other technology exists, but surgeons said the simplicity of the machine allows people to be trained quickly and some alternatives require a surgical team to travel to the donor, which can be expensive.
He said 30% of people on the lung transplant list died and Mr Evans-Smith had “had a very small window of opportunity”.
“Daniel would not have been with us today without a lung transplant, and we couldn’t have done the lung transplant without EVLP,” he added.
Royal Papworth hospital carries out more lung transplants than any other UK centre, completing 41 in the last year.
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