Amazing stuff - A heart in a backpack

[packman]

In 2016, a 25-year-old American man received a full heart transplant... but not before surviving for more than a year without a human heart inside his body.

Instead, Stan Larkin wore an 'artificial heart' in a backpack 24/7 for 555 days, which pumped blood around his body and kept him alive. The success of the procedure suggests that the device could be used to sustain other patients with total heart failure while they're waiting for a donor.


https://www.sciencealert.com/2016-man-lived-12-months-no-heart-syncardia-pump?perpetual=yes&limitstart=1

[Arkansas Granny]

1. Amazing is an understatement. I hadn't heard of this before.

[HipChick]

3. I had a friend that was on a not so portable version of this..

so he was pretty much tied to a bed, while he was plugged in

He was in his early 40's, decided he had enough, and was worried about all the medical costs to his family

He unplugged himself, and disconnected the machine...his family found him in the am, he decided that he would be better off for his family that way...

[Anon-C]

2. That's incredible! Nt