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What improvements and regressions does it have versus the old gen "well established" commercialized artificial heart?
by The_rationalist 5y ago
What improvements and regressions does it have versus the old gen "well established" commercialized artificial heart?
- parsecs 5y agoI'm not sure why this post is flagged and dead. This seem like a genuine and constructive question.
- iancmceachern 5y agoLots. The old gen, the only approved one, is actually the continuation of the Jarvik 7 made famous by the Barney Clark case. They've been making and using it all this time. It's now called Syncardia. It's pneumatic and the patients have to carry around a bit pneumatic driver that makes quite a bit of noise during every heartbeat. Patients have large air lines running in and out of their chest to carry the air in and out to drive the diaphragm based pump. It works, bit is not ideal in many ways.
- The_rationalist 5y agoI didn't knew about the pneumatic and noise annoyance, thanks for sharing