Heart Stop Beating – Life possible without a pulse or a heart beat

 HD, Medicine, People, Short (<10min)  Tagged with: ,
Jan 252012
 
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Heart Stop Beating is the story of Billy Cohn & Bud Frazier, two doctors from the Texas Heart Institute, who in March of 2011 successfully replaced a dying man’s heart with a ‘continuous flow’ device they developed, proving that life was possible without a pulse or a heart beat.

Heart Stop Beating - Life possible without a pulse or a heart beat, 4.6 out of 5 based on 7 ratings
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  • Gabor Kukucska

    WOW! pretty amusing!

  • Kkslpps

    How does the heart respond to sympathetic nerve stimulation?

  • Nato

    Awesome documentary, I’m fascinated ! wish it was longer 

  • Craigzz

    Did’nt say how long the calves lived, and this guy is no longer among the living.  The limiting factor in all these devices and any mobile technology is of course energy or battery power, you would’nt want to forget to charge this one up.