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What is the feedback loop that regulates the artificial heart's pump rate, assuming it exists at all?
by metaphor 10y ago
What is the feedback loop that regulates the artificial heart's pump rate, assuming it exists at all?
- c-slice 10y agoThere isn't any. The vagus nerve helps regulate heart rate, but artificial hearts don't change their pump rate to internal factors.
- jamesblonde 10y agoNot true. The Carmat heart increases and decreases pulse rate in response to changed hormone (or some other biomarker) levels