Date: 31/12/2013 11:18:10
From: wookiemeister
ID: 461548
Subject: Man survives first week with artificial heart

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-12-30/patient-doing-well-with-french-company27s-artificial-heart—-r/5178640

A 75-year-old Frenchman was feeding himself and chatting to his family more than a week after becoming the first person to be fitted with an artificial heart, one of his surgeons said.

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Date: 31/12/2013 12:19:32
From: CrazyNeutrino
ID: 461566
Subject: re: Man survives first week with artificial heart

they have gone the next level from a pacemaker

so some form of artificial bio pump with sensors and its own pacemaker

impressive

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Date: 31/12/2013 12:29:26
From: CrazyNeutrino
ID: 461571
Subject: re: Man survives first week with artificial heart

lungs next

I know some people are working on other organs with various working designs

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Date: 31/12/2013 12:31:23
From: ratty one
ID: 461573
Subject: re: Man survives first week with artificial heart

CrazyNeutrino said:

lungs next

I know some people are working on other organs with various working designs

I remember being surprised to discover that post op after removing one lung that a human can survive with just one (the remaining one). I have since then met at least one other person whom exists using just one lung as a consequence of a traffic accident iirc.

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Date: 31/12/2013 13:57:21
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 461642
Subject: re: Man survives first week with artificial heart

> A 75-year-old Frenchman was feeding himself and chatting to his family more than a week after becoming the first person to be fitted with an artificial heart

The first artificial heart was successfully implanted in the year 1982. What do they mean “first”?

The artificial organ I hope to see next is the kidney, given the huge number of people needing kidney transplants and dialysis machines.

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Date: 31/12/2013 23:42:04
From: OCDC
ID: 462033
Subject: re: Man survives first week with artificial heart

Yul Brynner had his pneumonectomy prior to the King and I.

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