Texas Medical Center - Houston Man First in World to be Successfully Implanted with Pulseless, Artificial Heart

Texas Medical Center - Houston Man First in World to be Successfully Implanted with Pulseless, Artificial Heart

This article is the must read source on the new pulseless artificial heart. It gives names, dates and devices used in the implantation of a centrifugal pump type artificial heart in a terminal patient that lived a month with the device before succumbing to other organs failing from the disease.

Researchers Create the First Pulseless Artificial Heart

Researchers Create the First Pulseless Artificial Heart This is a completely new idea to me. Others have reported on a centrifugal pump approach that was used in the past but the impeller on this machine is supposed to be an Archimedes screw that does not produce the cavitation the older pumps did.