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Your small vessels are not grown to tolerate a constant pressure. You get aneurysms, clotting is super dangerous because they generally form and sit rather than
by Supermancho 5y ago
Your small vessels are not grown to tolerate a constant pressure. You get aneurysms, clotting is super dangerous because they generally form and sit rather than getting sucked/pushed into the heart to potentially get broken up. Most importantly, forget your potential organ failure you wont notice until there's a lot of damage, and all the numbness you'll get, it's the brain function affects that bother me. Sluggish, memory problems, et al that accompanies tiny thromboses.
A rotary pump is an endgame-solution. It keeps you alive, at a cost and you die the end anyway (obviously).
- iancmceachern 5y agoExactly. This is the cause of the phenomenon known as "pump head" that anesthesiologists refer to when patients are on long periods of support on heart lung bypass machines. These machines are peristaltic pumps with a continuous flow. Check out Ventriflo, a new type of pump intended for use in this area that has a biomimetic flow and pressure profile. Www.ventriflo.com
- jnurmine 5y agoThere's also Scandinavian Real Heart (https://realheart.se https://realheart.se) from Sweden. They are developing a "total artificial heart" with two chambers and two pumps for a natural blood flow (and pulse). Longterm animal tests are expected to commence after this summer.
- henearkr 5y agoThis competition is good. Will push prices down a little bit.