Craig Lewis had no pulse for a month before he passed away, but he was certainly still alive. A new artificial heart , developed by Dr. Billy Cohn and Dr. Bud Frazier of the Texas Heart Institute , kept the 55-year-old cardiac amyloidosis patient alive without producing a pulse or showing a beep on an EKG machine, according to NPR . The continuous flow device, which is yet to have been.[...]
Pulseless Heart Developed at Texas Heart Institute by Dr. Billy Cohn and Dr. Bud Frazier
A pulseless heart has been developed by Dr. Billy Cohn and Dr. Bud Frazier at the Texas Heart Institute in Houston, several science news sites reported on Monday, June 13, 2011. Reports said that the pulseless heart uses rotors to circulate blood throughout the body instead of mimicking a natural heart which uses contractions. Because [...][...]
A Pulseless Heart Doesn't Skip a Beat
Texas Heart Institute Doctors Billy Cohen and Bud Frazier have developed an artificial heart that does not beat. It's not that it doesn't work, though. The pulseless heart constantly pumps blood, unlike . . .[...]
Pulseless Artificial Heart Never Misses a Beat
55 year old Craig Lewis lived for a month without a heartbeat or a pulse. If you had listened to his chest, you would heard silence. If you had hooked him up to an electrocardiograph, you wouldn't have heard the familiar beep, beep, beep. You would have seen a flat line. Lewis heart was replaced with [...][...]
Heart With No Beat Offers Hope Of New Lease On Life
Surgeons have long searched for an artificial heart that won't break down or cause clots or infections. A Texas team thinks the answer may rest in a device that relies on simple whirling rotors to create a continuous flow of blood — which means living with no pulse. This past spring, the device got its first test in a patient.[...]
High Court clears path for baby inquest
A FATAL home-birth will be the subject of an inquest despite a midwife's attempts to have the case scrapped.[...]
Home birth appeal bid rejected by High Court
The High Court has refused to hear an appeal on a so-called "born alive rule" after a midwife challenged a coroner's decision to hold an inquest into the death of a newborn.[...]
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