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Australian man survives 100 days with artificial heart in world-first success

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  • A [email protected]

    This is Australia, so the patient would be out of pocket about $2.50 for parking at the hospital.

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    Canada's the same except we have serious parking mafia and it's c$20.

    When my dear friend suffered a Widowmaker heart attack, and they lit up and staffed a theatre on an early holiday Sunday morning for a brace of stents, he didn't have to sell his house to make payments for it... Because it was c$20 for parking and a bit more for some really bad coffee. Costs were borne by all of us and it was pre-paid from taxes.

    Dude survived and annoys us with his sarcasm and piss-takes to this day.

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    • excrubulent@slrpnk.netE [email protected]

      Friend of mine who'd been in the room for bone surgeries said it was basically just carpentry. All saws, drills & screws.

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      Chainsaws were invented for surgery.

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      • cris_color@lemmy.worldC [email protected]

        The Australian researchers and doctors behind the operation announced on Wednesday that the implant had been an “unmitigated clinical success” after the man lived with the device for more than 100 days before receiving a donor heart transplant in early March.

        Just in case anyone else also found the title ambiguous regarding whether "100 days" meant he died 😅

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        There's been a lot of cases at the start of transplant tech where people have willingly gone through the surgery, knowing they would almost certainly die, and their living 100days was counted as a massive success.
        The fact this guy lived 100 days, got a donor heart, and is still, currently, alive... that's icing.

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          Yeah umm https://lemmy.ca/post/40524583

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          That's the same picture.

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            Yes exactly, so when they call it a "total heart replacement" I'd like to have clarification on it, so that I know how excited I should get

            It's frustrating when articles on new innovations don't go into details about them at all except just "it exists" pretty much

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            Don't know if you had your answer already, the artificial heart does pump harder when exercising

            https://youtube.com/shorts/uMLhsBO5fPM

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