No Pulse: How Doctors Reinvented The Human Heart

Cane Pole

This 10,000-rpm, no-pulse artificial heart doesn't resemble an organic heart--and might be all the better for it
http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-02/no-pulse-how-doctors-reinvented-human-heart

Amazing story....way too long to copy into here....

flatsjunkie88

Everyday at work I bless people with pulse who has never had it before.

Mackeral Snatcher

Wow, just WOW!!

MACD

Hmmmmm.....continuous flow........

This makes my pacemaker obsolite. And I've got the latest model, fully loaded with all the extra's........****, I'm going to have to upgrade.

Calusa

Medical technology, skill and dedication to human wellness by professionals never ceases to amaze me. God bless the doctors, nurses and care givers.

Cane Pole

Patient: "What's my blood pressure?"

Doctor: "78"

LOL!

GT Fish

very cool Eric!

MACD

Cane Pole wrote: »

Patient: "What's my blood pressure?"

Doctor: "78"

LOL!

I hope it comes with a remote variable speed adjustment........that would impress the wife.

Salty Gator

The left ventricular assist device is amazing. When you listen to the chest with a stethescope, it sounds like a bilge pump.

That was a cool article:thumbsup

JesseJames

MACD wrote: »

I hope it comes with a remote variable speed adjustment........that would impress the wife.

Manually engaged, zone specific, variable time overpressure switch. The ladies love it.

Menzies

Calusa wrote: »

Medical technology, skill and dedication to human wellness by professionals never ceases to amaze me. God bless the doctors, nurses and care givers.

Yeah, nothing to do with those greedy medical device companies that are making billions. They should find the billions for research from somewhere else rather than charging us - or do all the R&D work in India and China to make it cheaper.

Gardawg

I always wondered why the first artificial hearts had a beat ... our well pump didn't have a beat and it worked efficiently

Menzies

Gardawg wrote: »

I always wondered why the first artificial hearts had a beat ... our well pump didn't have a beat and it worked efficiently

They had better do some long term testing on that. If the human system (aortas, veins, and other organs (like the brain)) have been designed to be expanded and contracted by the dystolic and systolic pressures and perhaps that is what keeps them healthy, by now having a median consistent flow do we know what the long term effects are? Also do our extremities require the higher pressure to be fully serviced?

Sea Snake

Menzies wrote: »

They had better do some long term testing on that. If the human system (aortas, veins, and other organs (like the brain)) have been designed to be expanded and contracted by the dystolic and systolic pressures and perhaps that is what keeps them healthy, by now having a median consistent flow do we know what the long term effects are? Also do our extremities require the higher pressure to be fully serviced?

Maybe if they just play with the pressures, that would make it sustainable.....one would think that a steady low pressure would be better on the arteries anyway that short high pressure bursts....just thinkin out loud...

But at any rate, with a daughter that has had two open heart surgeries, and now has a pacemaker.....any advances in heart care are not only fascinating to me, but welcomed with humble open arms.

Great read. BTW......


STEVE

navigator2

Menzies wrote: »

Also do our extremities require the higher pressure to be fully serviced?

That's a question you'll have to ask your wife.