Comments on: Machine Keeps Heart Beating Outside of Body

By: Virtual Worlds For Kids

Virtual Worlds For Kids — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 02:39:59 +0000

Yep, they used this for my father’s by-pass. Unbelieveable!

By: takumi

takumi — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:54:21 +0000

Can it beat any faster?

By: charles

charles — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 00:46:29 +0000

That is correct that the heart is not beating. This is especially important with respect to valve function most significantly the left ventricle. Contraction of the ventricle improves valve function for mitral valve repair

By: Kalel

Kalel — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:53:55 +0000

Fascinatingly icky.

By: free games for kids

free games for kids — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 02:58:05 +0000

That kinda made me cringe…

By: xopl

xopl — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:50:45 +0000

By: Ali S.

Ali S. — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 01:56:28 +0000

Kali Maaaa!! Kali Maaa!! *hold heart in hand*

By: JoeD

JoeD — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:40:44 +0000

Welcome to the 1930′s. Charles Lindbergh and Dr Alexis Carrel were doing breakthrough research on this 70 years ago:

http://www.amazon.com/Immortalists-Charles-Lindbergh-Alexis-Forever/dp /006052815X

By: Rudy Ascott

Rudy Ascott — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:50:20 +0000

I love science more than anything.

By: Christophe

Christophe — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 19:58:20 +0000

I did that to a frog once, in a biology class. The heart kept beating long enough to attach it to a monitoring device (basically drawing the heart’s ECG on a paper)
Pretty cool, feeling like the priest in the Raiders of the lost ark

By: mbunds

mbunds — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:15:45 +0000

This heart isn’t “beating”; it’s being force-fed fluid with a pump. Compare this video to one of an actual living heart for proof….

By: Foreigner1

Foreigner1 — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:09:26 +0000

Before you know it, you’ll see a testperson that is pulled apart and that lives scattered thoughout the whole lab- Heart here, brain in another corner connected to the WWWeb and some robotic arms and hands next to the original arms and legs. Lungs, kidneys and stomach redundant but just for the sake of science kept working in the next corner. And then some drooling scientists caring and nurturing all over all those parts… Welcome tot the 21st Century in all its Glorious Future!