First HEARTLESS man with a pulse!

 In March 2011, two doctors, Dr Billy Cohn and Dr Bud Frazier, from the Texas Heart Institute, installed first 'continuous flow' device. This device was installed into Craig Lewis, 55, who suffered from amyloidosis was told that he had twelve hours to live after having lived on dialysis machine, a breathing apparatus, and an external blood pump. Lewis is the first human to live on this device, meaning that Lewis is the first man to live without a pulse. His wife was astonished when she tried to listen for his pulse. "I listened and it was a hum, which was amazing. He didn’t have a pulse." Lewis could not even survive if he'd been living on a pace maker. This device was made from several house hold items, and was tested on over 50 calves to whom all woke up the next day after the surgery and preformed everyday tasks normally.

I found this article very interesting, especially since I had just seen another article about the "heart box", where during heart transplants, a machine can keep blood flowing in a box in vitro. Advances in heart technologies are starting to boom and it's amazing to see the potential for heart disease patients needing a heart transplant. 

Disclaimer: This article may not be the most scientific, but I found it remarkable and had to do my blog on it!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2096314/Meet-HEARTLESS-man-able-live-heartbeat-PULSE.html