Current artificial hearts are not intended to be long-term solutions, but instead be a temporary way to keep someone alive when their heart fails, but a donor heart is unavailable.
having to carry a battery that I need to have plugged into my heart for it to work is literally nightmare fuel for me though, there's so many ways I could imagine myself unplugging it accidentally, breaking the battery or breaking the cable
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betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 1y
Looks like something Tony Stark would build. In a cave! With a box of scraps!
frazw@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 1y
I hope that should have said "...so far". Did he survive 101 days?
Darohan@lemmy.zip · 40 pts · 1y
He got a transplant after 100 days, according to the article. This was just to keep him alive until he was able to receive it. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/mar/12/australian-man-survives-100-days-with-artificial-heart-in-world-first-success
HipsterTenZero@dormi.zone · 14 pts · 1y
Fuck yeah, good for him.
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz · 17 pts · 1y
Current artificial hearts are not intended to be long-term solutions, but instead be a temporary way to keep someone alive when their heart fails, but a donor heart is unavailable.
UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 1y
Pretty damn cool tech tho. Another step towards second heart cyberware
Jumuta@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 1y
having to carry a battery that I need to have plugged into my heart for it to work is literally nightmare fuel for me though, there's so many ways I could imagine myself unplugging it accidentally, breaking the battery or breaking the cable
Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1y
"Has anyone seen my heart charger?"
"Sorry, borrowed it to charge my phone"
explodicle@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 1y
Just get one with a torsion spring instead and wind it up every day.
Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y
If that's not just some AI image, it hurts me to think about them stretching arteries over those barb fittings.
CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net · 24 pts · 1y
It really looks that crazy
kamenlady@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
Testing the device seems fun.
But you definitely are gonna have to stretch those arteries
mrfriki@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 1y
Looks heavy af
HipsterTenZero@dormi.zone · 5 pts · 1y
A heart's a heavy burden~
Shawdow194@fedia.io · 11 pts · 1y
https://bivacor.com/
Incredible!
explodicle@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 1y
It looks like it's made out of pipe fittings from the hardware store! I thought it would be more smooth and organic looking.
nichtburningturtle@feddit.org · 6 pts · 1y
Looks perfectly steam punk.
urheber@discuss.tchncs.de · 8 pts · 1y
everyone who saw this is gonna be erased from history
PenguinTrinity@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 1y
He got his own turbo /s