http://www.france24.com/en/20150119-french-artificial-heart-inventor-bowled-over-patient-progress/
In France, and unnamed man of 68 years is living off of an artificial heart. After nearly dying from a heart disease, a french company decided to experiment on the patient and give him a heart transplant. Now his heart is no longer an organ but a battery-operated electronic! The first brave person to test out this "toy" was 76 years old, and died within 74 days of the surgery. This man is the second patient and has now been running on batteries for 5 months. He lives a completely normal lifestyle; he even loves to take walks and bike rides.
I think it is amazing to see technology grow through the years! I would be terrified to be apart of this experiment so i think it is very selfless and brave of the family to agree to this. Now France has improved technology and many lives could be saved. It seems weird that it is run by batteries; what happens if the batteries run out? Could he live forever on his robot heart? It is amazing what we can do with technology. People used to always say it would be impossible to live off of an electronic brain... well, we will see about that.
i agree it is a good thing that we are finding new ways to help people and i do agree that it is cool that certain things like technology is expanding for the good of others and for the good of the worls
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ReplyDeleteI agree!! It's really cool that technology has advanced this far. It was brave of that man to test out the heart. With his contribution medical science has advanced..
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