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 * 4. The Future of Medicine - The No Pulse Heart **

Read the Popular Science article - How Doctors Reinvented the Human Heart and prepare a short account of how doctors designed the device. Make an appointment to discuss the article with me.

Notes

The article I read was about a new innovative artificial heart. This heart is different from many previous hearts. this new heart is a pulse less. The name of this artificial heart is called the HeartMate II. This heart is a major improvement for the first artificial heart called the Jarvik 7. The Jarvik 7 Invented in 1982. It was a noisy, bulky machine, the size of a wash dryer. The HeartMate II is designed to assist the heart, not replace it. The HeartMate II has two pumps that acts as the ventricle and atrium. Two augers rotate 8,000 to 12,000 rpms to circulate blood around the body. The machine also eliminates the need for a pulse from the body, so there is no longer a systolic and diastolic number. From the article i also learned that as many as five million Americans suffer from some form of heart failure. Only about 2000 hearts are available for transplant each year. Also your heart beats 35 million times a year for as long as you live without taking a rest.

Conduct a dissection of the Fetal Pig following the instructions given. Create a photo presentation or a video of your dissection that shows all the organs discovered during the dissection.
 * 1. Surgeon Training **

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