Gadget to sustain artificial heart outside the hospital Bashny.Net

Walls Larkin, a young man of 23 years, being patient Cardiovascular Center of the University of Michigan Frankel, had the opportunity to meet the Christmas holidays at home with his family, despite the fact that he implanted artificial heart is functioning in a hospital setting depends on a massive apparatus Big Blue, compressed air is injected into the ventricles of the patient's body.

In 2007, Stan, playing basketball, fell ill in the chest - later in the hospital revealed that a young man suffering right ventricular dysplasia, which potentially threatens to stop serdtsa.V result of a more serious examination, the young man was diagnosed with cardiomyopathy, which turned out to be ill also and his younger brother. Wall was implanted defibrillator, but unsuccessfully, developed cardiogenic shock, which led to the fact that doctors were forced to replace a diseased heart to artificial.

Such patients, while in the queue to the implantation of the donor organ, forced all the time in the hospital, being connected to the machine Big Blue, is pumped through two tubes, directly coming out of the body, the compressed air in the ventricles of the heart. And given the statistics National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute , according to which every day approximately 3,000 Americans are in the queue to the implantation, it becomes clear that the waiting time can be very long.

In June 2014 the Office of FDA Food and Drug Administration (Food and Drug Administration, FDA) approved the use of special mobile gadget worn as a backpack over his shoulder, called Freedom Driver, repeating the functionality of Big Blue, but allows the patient with an artificial heart to move freely without being tied to a hospital ward.





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The device weighs 5.9 kg and has a built-in air filters, battery, and is worn by the patient continuously as a school backpack. Although for Freedom Driver still need to meet certain therapeutic requirements, in the case of Wall Larkin they were made, allowing the young man, at least temporarily leave the hospital.



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Also an idea of ​​Freedom Driver can be obtained by looking at the video below:


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