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Australian man successfully receives titanium heart after 6-hour operation. (www.abc.net.au)
submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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In short:

A mechanical heart has been implanted in a New South Wales man who was experiencing severe heart failure.

He has become the first person in the world to be discharged from hospital with the titanium heart.

What's next?

Doctors say the invention will likely be an alternative for donor heart transplants in the future.

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[–] CosmicCleric 87 points 1 day ago (5 children)

From the article...

It is powered by an external rechargeable battery that connects to the heart via a wire in the patient's chest.

The battery lasts four hours and then alerts the patient that a new battery is needed.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 16 hours ago

This is amazing, but it would certainly be a pain in the ass to have to wake up every four hours during the night to change your battery for your damn heart. And if the alarm couldn't wake you, you'd just fucking die or something.

[–] [email protected] 75 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sounds like actual hell.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The alternative is death, so a lot people would choose this instead.

[–] CosmicCleric 7 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

It's also just temporary, until a biological donor heart can be found for them.

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[–] Arbiter 48 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Exposed wires? Does this mean I could overclock my heart with a bench power supply?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago

I’m imagining some sort of an Iron Man situation

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Hopefully it can just run off wall power while at home. It would suck to change in the middle of each night.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 day ago (2 children)

God the fear of accidentally sleeping through the alarm would probably keep me from sleeping at all

"When you hear the beeping you need to swap out the battery because if you don't you'll die. Goodnight."

[–] Jackhammer_Joe 21 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Isn't that the plot from Crank 2 (kind of)?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

I had completely forgotten about those movies!

Cheesy action flicks that I remember loving, I've got to watch them again

Thank you for reminding me that they exist!

[–] Psaldorn 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Chev Chelios ❤️

[–] edwardbear 4 points 19 hours ago

CHEV FUCKING CHELIOS

I was obsessed. Had the Nokia 8800 (he had sirrocco, but I was poor af). Had the same ring tone. What a movie

[–] electric 6 points 1 day ago

Memories awoken.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

At least if that happens, you'll simply sleep for the rest of your life.