Talk:Artificial heart

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An IP unlk'd Tom Christerson for lack of an article. Note that FindAGrave has enuf info for a stub.
--Jerzy•t 05:44, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Power needs

If there is a professional on the subject, what is the major problem in electrical power from the body?

• Not an expert, but the human body only produces small voltages (couple of millivolts) and currents, not enough to power a device (otherwise we'd fashion instruments to charge our cell phones from our skin). Also, there's the matter of harnessing the energy since it's usually in the form of chemical energy. The only electrical "energy" available in the body is through action potentials, usually used for "signalling" (neurons, muscles), not "powering" them (which is done by ATP and other chemical reactions). Wikipedia brown 03:44, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Nonsense?

"On July 2, 2001, Robert Tools received the first completely self-contained artificial heart transplant in a surgery done by University of Louisville doctors at Jewish Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky. It is called the AbioCor Implantable Replacement Heart. Tom Christerson survived for 17 months after his artificial heart transplant."

First, the AbioCor implantable heart part is badly worded and in the wrong place, perhaps it should be added to the first sentence ("the heart implanted in Robert Tools at Louisville was the AbioCor Impla.." for example). Secondly, what does Tom Christerson have to do with it? I'm glad he lived 17 months after his transplant, but is that the longest survival rate on record, or was his surgery also at UofL? The whole paragraph reads like nonsense. 70.35.227.160 11:52, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Heartmate II

This article needs some more development. Here's a link to a new device, recently implanted in a human. http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?id=17523&ch=biotech 69.49.44.11 15:36, 29 December 2006 (UTC)