Artificial Heart Recipient Has No Pulse

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday September 30, 2009 @02:14AM from the just-a-low-pitched-hum dept.

laggist writes "A heart patient in Singapore has been implanted with an artificial heart that pumps blood continuously, allowing her to live without a pulse. From the article: '... the petite Madam Salina, who suffers from end-stage heart failure, would not have been able to use the older and bulkier models because they can only be implanted in patients 1.7m or taller. The 30-year-old administrative assistant is the first recipient here to get a new artificial heart that pumps blood continuously, the reason why there are no beats on her wrist.'" The story is light on details, but an article from last year in MIT's Technology Review explains a bit more about how a pulse-less artificial heart works.

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Re:First pulse. by DigitalPasture · 2009-09-30 03:06 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Kudos... I hate the "first" post crap too!
Re:In a movie by Cormacus · 2009-09-30 04:37 · Score: 0, Offtopic

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