Is the artificial heart a medical discovery?

Answer 1

An artificial heart is a heart which is an electrmechanical replacement for an organic heart.

First implemented April 4, 1969, an artificial heart was used to replace failing heart of a dying man, by Doctors Domingo_Liottaand Denton_Cooley.

Unfortunately the man died of an infection thirty two hours after the insertion. However this pioneering technology paved the way for future proceedures which resulted in a good sucess rate.

Answer 2

To act as a temporary pump for the circulatory system whilst a donor heart was found for the patient. They were never intended to be permanent installations, only as interim life-preservers to tide the patient over whilst they were waiting for a new natural organ.

The first succesful use of such a device in a human being was in 1982, when American Barney Clarke survived for 3 and a half months using the Swedish-designed Jarvik-7 machine until a donor heart became available for him. This gave surgeons and medical researchers confidence that a patient could survive the wait indefinitely using an artificial heart, but this was sadly mistaken- three years later another man, William J. Schroeder, died after having used a mechanical heart for 18 months. His last few months of life were spent in acute pain and suffering, which led to a subsequent ban on reliance upon artificial hearts for longer than 3 months or so. Nowadays, the emphasis is placed upon assisting a patient's diseased heart to keep on functioning using mechanical 'boosters' which are usually outside the body, until a healthy donor organ is found.

Nobody can have an artificial heart installed permanently- we are not machines, and the body just won't accept it.

Answer 3

abritsh professer named Dr. Ralph Montessori

Answer 4

In your dad