Technology

Thank you.

There's been a lot of cases at the start of transplant tech where people have willingly gone through the surgery, knowing they would almost certainly die, and their living 100days was counted as a massive success.
The fact this guy lived 100 days, got a donor heart, and is still, currently, alive... that's icing.

SHINY AND CHROME

Function over form, I suppose. I am pretty sure it's mostly made of titanium and silicone.

It does seems like that sometimes tho, that surgeons are the mechanics of the human body, fixing you up in the most crude ways, as long as it gets the job done.

It'd be a Bunnings down here not home depot, but it sure looks like it

I just gotta say.

Photoshopping is such a great skill to have. Thank you for making my day better.

For orthopods though, using power tools and sledgehammers is pretty much the name of the game.

Bunnings is the appropriate hardware store franchise here. He of course would have grabbed a Snag outside on the way home

Yes, I opened the article just to find an answer to the question: Does it really look this fucking cool? Answer: yes, yes it does.

America is on track I’d say, Musk n Zuck are so horny to do that…

oh yay, a techno dystopia, just wait for the repo men after you miss your heart payment

Yeah umm https://lemmy.ca/post/40524583

If it was the same pressure all the time, does that mean he couldn’t do anything that would otherwise cause a normal heart to beat faster (run, exercise, feel nervous)? Would he faint or something since his “heart” won’t beat faster?

Sounds like a Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD)! They’re still being used today, although usually as a bridge to transplant rather than definitive therapy.

This new development is definitely exciting though, hopefully it will offer a new longer term alternative for patients :)

Sounds like a Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD). Interestingly enough, with the older implants there is no detectable heartbeat under a stethoscope due to the way the pump functions. Pretty surprising when you're expecting to find one, and has led to it being unoficially dubbed VLAD in reference to the creatures of the night.

That sounds strampunk af, I'd get it even if I didn't need one if it did that!

it would be so fucking cool if he still had it but it really is uncharted territory

Because I read the article I actually know the answer! It's the first time this technology has been used in a human, and it's been a huge success so far. Quote from the article

The BiVACOR total artificial heart, invented by Queensland-born Dr Daniel Timms, is the world’s first implantable rotary blood pump that can act as a complete replacement for a human heart, using magnetic levitation technology to replicate the natural blood flow of a healthy heart.

Likely the length of time is what's first.

Edit: nope several people have had them for over 100 days

I imagine that would save lots of people.

Lots and lots and lots. All the issues with scarcity of donor hearts and tissue compatibility would just go away, and the main constraint on heart transplants would become the availability of a cardiac surgeon. Far fewer people would die while they were on a waiting list, and there would be much less incentive to drop anyone healthy enough to survive the surgery off the list entirely.