Chapter 349 Powerful Artificial Heart
Mayo Clinic is the largest private hospital in the United States, with an average profit of 100 million yuan per bed per year.
It is also one of the few places in the country that has opened up the in vitro cultivation and transplantation of hematopoietic stem cells.
Similarly, Umbrella's latest artificial organs also have initial clinical applications here.
Umbrella is a legendary existence in the medical field. From the earliest stone-dissolving medicine to the subsequent "Ankangding", they are all amazing. The unique culture medium technology has not been replicated by anyone until now.
In this situation, even if Umbrella proposed an unreliable method, they would be willing to try it.
What's more, artificial organs themselves have always been a research direction.
Because the advantages of artificial organs themselves are too obvious.
It is reliable and effective, easy to perform, does not require waiting for a donor, has a relatively low risk of rejection, etc.
However, while the advantages are obvious, there are also many disadvantages, such as the life of the machinery, the high price, and the complications over time.
So far, artificial organs are not yet popular.
Whether it's heart replacement surgery or artificial heart transplantation, Mayo Clinic has extensive experience.
Here we have the most advanced medical equipment and the strongest medical team. We have performed many corresponding surgeries and have a large number of follow-up records to understand the patient's condition and accumulate more data based on actual conditions.
Umbrella has taken two new artificial organs very seriously.
As a top medical institution, they know exactly what it means if it really is as advertised!
"It's really incredible that the lifespan exceeds that of a normal human heart."
"However, it is difficult to verify the service life. Although it has been tested through accelerated operation in harsh environments, it is still different from long-term use in nature. We always were good, but after all, machines are unreliable..."
Initially, Syncardia tested artificial heart transplants on 81 patients, all of whom were critically ill patients with a survival time of less than 30 days. The average survival time was 79 days, and the longest was 400 days.
Therefore, the current consensus on the greatest role of artificial hearts is to prolong their lives as much as possible so that they can wait for a suitable recipient.
Directly and completely replacing the heart with an artificial one is a very beautiful and promising project, but in reality, they are not very optimistic about it in the short term.
Fortunately, the Mayo Clinic has a wide variety of patients, so it is easy to find those patients who have little time left to live and have not yet waited for cardiac surgery.
After explaining the current situation and bringing out Umbrella's endorsement, many patients agreed to the implant surgery.
Then, the operation began!
The doctor who was constantly manipulating the vascular endoscope, implanting it from his wrist toward the heart, carefully manipulated the endoscope and said to the other doctors who were observing and learning from the surgery.
"In fact, if Umbrella's memory metal alone can be used to make more effective new stents and artificial valves, I would quite agree. The ability to compress the entire cavity into such a small area is indeed a rare technology."
"Indeed, although memory metals are often used in medical devices, very few have reached their level. To be honest, I hope that they can really achieve the effect they said..."
The commonly used memory metal today is nickel-titanium alloy, which has two different atomic arrangement structures when heated and cooled, so it can be restored when heated and is also highly resistant to corrosion.
But it is obvious that the memory metal itself still has defects in other metallic properties. It is no exaggeration to say that the new material forcibly fused by Umbrella is more than worthy of winning the Nobel Prize.
It’s just that Umbrella has developed a lot of technologies at the moment, but there is no news of a Nobel Prize yet.
But it is also normal. The Nobel Prize is often awarded only after verification, and many winners have won the current Nobel Prize for their previous achievements.
But there is definitely some sense of suppression in this!
Before the actual operation, Mayo demonstrated the reason for their high price by conducting several off-human tests on the artificial heart, which cost US$100,000.
There is no surgery fee charged for patients who are willing to undergo the procedure.
At present, the results of other tests are quite good. Anyway, there is indeed no problem for the time being. Now it depends on the condition of this patient...
When the endoscope reaches the target area, it releases the components step by step starting from the valve . Each release looks like a work of art, and the changes in the atrium can be seen through the endoscope!
The process went smoother than expected, even much smoother.
That magical material is not just a simple "memory" but also has adaptability. As the motor runs, it has started to operate on its own.
With many electrical artificial hearts, the patient no longer has a pulse, but this one from Umbrella is more like a "boost" provided by the myocardium.
After completing the minimally invasive chest wire extraction, in addition to charging, it can even adjust the heart power to the level that best suits the patient by modifying external data parameters!
"it's over?"
As the device was removed from the blood vessel, the wound was sealed, and the patch on the chest was matched with the skin, they suddenly found that the difficulty and time of the operation itself were much less than expected.
It doesn't reflect the skills of these experts at all.
Even this is the result of the doctor's careful and slow operation. It will obviously be faster after becoming proficient.
The patient's other indicators were then tested and everything was normal!
After waiting for the patient to gradually wake up and beginning to observe him, these medical experts also found that he seemed to have recovered quite well!
Even the patients themselves were a little confused.
He actually knew that he was nearing the end of his life, so he came here to try out the new technology.
In fact, he has completed his psychological preparation during this period and is not so afraid anymore.
But now it is successful?
He couldn't help but get excited as he felt his heart beating for the first time in a long time, the blood filling his body, his mind clear and his body strong.
“I feel full of strength…”
It's not that he feels stronger, but when he was chosen, his heart function had already failed severely, so he naturally felt weak all over. Now after gradually recovering, of course he feels full of strength.
"It looks good. Get used to it first. We haven't increased the power. We're keeping it at a sick level for now to let your body adapt. We'll gradually increase it based on your recovery until your heart rate returns to normal..."
The doctor looked at the patient in front of him with a strange expression on his face.
Wow, this thing really seems to give him an indescribable feeling. He even wondered if athletes could implant this in the future and increase the power, and wondered if it would have a stronger effect than doping.
Temo seems to be totally feasible!
Even many doctors had a strange idea .
If, I mean if!
Suppose this patient can really remain normal for a long time, and the service life of this instrument is really that long.
Then, what they think of may become a reality!
