Posts tagged heart

Angela’s Heart (YALE!)

This is an amazing story of the different parts of medicine coming together to create a new innovative solution for a problem that initially had no real good solution.  Video is a bit long but it is well worth it.  

A pediatric surgeon, cardiothoracic surgeon, and a team of biomedical engineers came together to complete this girl’s heart.

Makes me want to goto yale..

Medical Advances are Beautiful This polyurethane heart can keep critically ill cardiac patients alive while they await a donated human heart. Once the device is surgically implanted, its attached plastic tubes run through the patient’s skin to a battery-powered pneumatic pump. Despite the cost—$106,000— the demand is strong. Some 3,000 people await heart transplants in the U.S., but only about 2,100 donor hearts are available each year. While boosting the supply of artificial hearts is a relatively simple technical hurdle, increasing the supply of human hearts is more challenging. Who will be tomorrow’s donors? That question lingers for a patient in Germany, who recently received a CardioWest artificial heart like this one.

Medical Advances are Beautiful

This polyurethane heart can keep critically ill cardiac patients alive while they await a donated human heart. Once the device is surgically implanted, its attached plastic tubes run through the patient’s skin to a battery-powered pneumatic pump. Despite the cost—$106,000— the demand is strong. Some 3,000 people await heart transplants in the U.S., but only about 2,100 donor hearts are available each year. While boosting the supply of artificial hearts is a relatively simple technical hurdle, increasing the supply of human hearts is more challenging. Who will be tomorrow’s donors? That question lingers for a patient in Germany, who recently received a CardioWest artificial heart like this one.

This is just crazy..  A human heart destined for transplant lies cradled in a TransMedics Organ Care System. The device can keep a heart warm and beating—and viable for many hours longer than the conventional method for handling donor hearts: immersion in a saline solution and packing in ice. -national geographic.

This is just crazy.. 

A human heart destined for transplant lies cradled in a TransMedics Organ Care System. The device can keep a heart warm and beating—and viable for many hours longer than the conventional method for handling donor hearts: immersion in a saline solution and packing in ice.

-national geographic.