Meet The Worlds First Heartless Human!

originally posted by: Hefficide
a reply to: OrionHunterX

Didn't Dick Cheney live for a number of years with such a device?

If I recall correctly, yes. He liked to freak people out by turning off the battery pack. He did it on the Today Show.

He became "Darth Cheney"!

Another way of looking at this is, we only have a beat because mother nature only has muscle contractions to work with to get blood to move. Its not like it has anything that could produce a consistent flow.

wow. and what happens when CMEs and solar flares really start to affect the earth, will this affect his device?

originally posted by: Flux8
But how did they they address the cardio pulminary part (CO2/O2 exchange) in a CONTINUOUS flow system?! Fascinating!

It's called a "lung".

a reply to: [post=18886967]Bedlam[/post

"Continuous flow", not a "beat". There is a time delay there. Timing is a little bit of importance. Our system does not work on "continuous flow".

Curious, does the person have to get constant ABGs?

originally posted by: Flux8
Our system does not work on "continuous flow".

Curious, does the person have to get constant ABGs?

It works just fine that way. Why would you need pulsations to transfer gas? And, no, no they don't.

Coulda sworn I was going to see a picture of Dick Cheney.

Still, really cool.