‘Groundbreaking,’ First-in-human total artificial heart implanted inside patient in Houston
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.ย. 2024
- THI and BiVACOR announced the successful first-in-human implantation of the BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart (TAH) as part of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Early Feasibility Study (EFS) on July 9, 2024.
This should be bigger news. This is the kind of thing I want to hear and see and invest in, not the next political cycle.
Facts
Like you would know if you invested in a good thing anyway :)
@@dddddd211 you just woke up with FU energy or what, lol 😆
investors see my comment above on Leviticus in Israel. There are still theoretical obstacles requiring a better scientific understanding of plaque formation.
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"Sorry, but your insurance company says it's not medically necessary and won't cover it."
-or "We don't cover experimental treatments."
Face it: this is only for those who can afford to pay millions out of pocket, & the rest of us are out of luck regardless of need.
Hillarious , and should not be true,
An insurance company tried to say that a cancer surgery was not seen as medically necessary a few weeks ago. I called and the issue was resolved within 2 hours.
Very scummy as always
How about some breast implants and cross-sex hormones instead?
Wear and tear is built into every biological system. But it shouldn't mean we stop trying.
Yeah. If there is interaction (even so between blood and the disc) it should wear out. Just that the levitation state helps reduce it by a lot.
Bro needs an oil change every 50,000 beats
@@arguedscarab7985😭😂😂
Yeah by working smarter not harder
@@arguedscarab7985 BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart (TAH) doesn't need an oil change.
Our heart beating 144,000 times a day and over 52 million times a year is incredible… not even Toyota can build that type of reliability. Wild
Heart cells are also biologically immortal. The cells last a lifetime, never being replaced, unless unnatural causes. It's one of the reasons it's impossible to get heart cancer, since there's no mitosis.
Stupid is the toyota japan!!!
Toyota is formidable. And how many times does a piston move per second in their engines...
@@Ranstone both of those things arent true. your heart has limited regenerative ability in adulthood and cancers originating from the heart are very rare but not impossible.
Yes they can. Do the math on how many times a piston and cylinder complete a cycle. 1 hour drive daily, 365 days a year at 2000rpm average. 2000rpms is about 12x10^4 revolutions per hour, 365 days a year is about 43.8 million revolutions a year. For a 4 stroke engine it would be half that at approximately 24 million cycles for each piston. Up the rpms and youll get substantially more. Some bearings can be designed with infinite life cycles but require there to be an oil film between the moving parts at specific properties. I am not a biomedical engineer but you cant have these lubricants inside bodies obviously. Very special materials can only be used for medical purposes.
Suffering from ischemic heart disease since my 30s.. hope this becomes an option in real life.
Hope you can live long enough to get what you need 😊 take care
What do that?
@@lucas839 Genetics...
God bless @@poepflater
@@poepflaterYou should find out what the criteria is to get into the medical trial.
I hope they release this soon soo many people need this!
Yeah. Starting with my ex. She could really use a heart.
@@BrettFightorFlight damn thats cold 🥶
@@Puggeliciousbut not heartless?
"as long as its got power"... brings new light to the importance of having backup power.
OUTSTANDING WORK PEOPLE
Very cool. God bless the engineers, surgeons, and the patient himself!
Thank God we have ppl with heart and medical conditions from birth
Its a sign God love us 😂😂😂
@@164procar4 We live in a fallen world. God created humans perfect, no sickness, no death, no sadness. All of that was the result of human choice to reject God. It just shows that we need God more than ever.
@@164procar4thank God that everyone does not born as defect at the same time
Yes you need God more than ever so you can paint yourself red white and blue and decry to run fossil fuels forever... Because GOD told you. All others are outsider Invaders and atheist devils.
@@Jesus_Christ_loves_you_alot hahaha
"From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me."
I would love to know what it _sounds_ like. One of the neat things about this concept in the show "Licolice Recoil" is that one of the character's mechanical heart doesn't make beating sounds. I wonder if this makes a continuous whirring or an incremental pulsing or no sound at all.
Check out the The Texas Heart Institute youtube page. They discuss this BiVacor device and show you what it sounds like and how it works.
If it’s a rotating disc in between a magnetic field, then spinning really fast I’d assume at least a slight humming sound potentially. Who knows eh lol
In the talk, they demonstrate it sounds like something out of scifi humming back and forth.
Video: "The Texas Heart Institute Implants BiVACOR® Total Artificial Heart" @ 6:33
Looks like a turbo charger
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Wait until you see how fast this guy can now run!
That's the button you push during sex
I'm waiting for other companies to start making artificial hearts, so they can make Robocop's prediction come true.
Next thing you know we'll be getting artificial hearts from Yamaha, Sony, and etc lol
you need glasses
SUTUTUTU
That will be $40,000,000 AFTER insurance pays.
😂😂
YOU CAN MAKE FUN OF OUR MAPLE SYRUP BUT NOT OUT MEDICAL BILLS, EH 😂
dont worry youll live long enough to pay it off
Better in the ground near God. There is no bill to heaven other than faith and the will to stay away from sins as much as possible.
@@Spanu96 CRAZY HAS ENTERED THE CHAT …
That is amazing.. Good work doctors.!!!!
Hell yeah. I'll take this over "thoughts and prayers" any day
I will take both....prayer is important.
Without the breath of life from God Almighty……you are nothing.
@@Denvermorgan2000 To those who are superstitious, absolutely.
@switch733 I'm not.
Superstitious, but I know for a fact God is real he is not a myth he is a real person just as real as you or me except he is God.
@@Denvermorgan2000 Truth is, none of us know for sure. We can believe all day long, but none of us actually know.
Lol we are getting close to the movie repo man
Was immediately reminded of that
I need a new job
My first thought. You beat me to it
Are they looking for Jean-Luc Picard?
Did you mean Bicentennial Man?
“From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh,it disgusted me”
Imagine having a heart attack proof heart that runs forever..
This is what the world should be doing. But you wont hear much about it.
Awesome tech! And awesome reporting! This reporter did a better job than many on the national news outlets.
The irony, man made devices made from the the best materials, whether an artificial heart or hip, can't compete with the longevity of the biological organ.
Biological organs wear out much faster than man made devices. But they can fix themselves, so it doesn't matter that they're constantly wearing out. We can make all sorts of things that are immensely strong, but when they break, they're just broken. Biological organs break much faster, but fix themselves as fast as they break. Which is pretty cool!
I guess I don't see the irony.
can you please explain what's ironic about this
Transplants eventually die. These mechanical hearts can not get diseases, which put them at the advantage in that regard, and mechanical hearts, if made correctly, could outlive a transplanted organ by 15 or more years past.
@@josephbrown8905 Unless it's cancer; then you're just done for.
“…as long as it’s getting power.”
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Home Depot Milwaukee lithium ion batteries , what I use...... F the charge just broke.. 😮
@@user-bd8je6cb9z same. I’ve invested heavily in M18 batteries and tools, fans, lights recently.
This is good news. When I was little docs found out I had a bicuspid aortic valve and said no need to do anything now. When he needs the replacement, technology will be more advanced. Fast forward almost 30 years and I got the Ross procedure. Doc said it should last the rest of my natural life but if we fast forward another 30 years, tech should be able to replace the whole thing if I need. So seeing where we are now, in another 29 years I should be golden!
Dick Chaney was actually the first with the artificial heart. Only he doesn't count he doesn't have a soul
*I've seen this movie before...*
- Failed to make payments on your shiny new Heart
- Repo Men show up to your house on a Sunday evening
- Your Ticker gets repo'd
|-> The End
Repo the genetic opera or the garbage remake?
Heart Pumps 52 million times a year Wow Mother Nature is incredible.
Oh and good job Texas 👏 .
Good to hear stuff from your State that makes the whole country proud.
For 500k, you too can have a heart! ❤️
This is insane. Im speechless.
I'd be scared to go next to strong magnets.
How about a "NO MRI NO MAGNETS" tattoo on your forehead?
I'd be scared to have a heart that needs replacing
@@killerx4123guess you’ve never been in love 💔
Same as having a pacemaker.
So, how is it powered? You gonna have wires poking out of your chest? Have to wear an inductive backpack for the rest of your life? Why did they not speak on that MASSIVELY important aspect?
Yes, there’s a percutaneous cable that connects to the controller and battery pack and it requires surgery to change every 6 months
How do they connect the arteries to the ports of the mechanical pump? Plastic zip ties like shown in the video?
@@hojo70 The zip ties were just for the model.
@@jackfrost2014currently yes, but they are working on a model were they will putt a battery inside you and wirreles charge it.
i've been looking forward to bivacor for a while, awesome!
Grats to the Aussie inventor behind Bivacor
Wonder how long before the recipient starts getting the extended warranty calls for that thing.
“your balance is past due, please update payment information to resume your subscription to life”
A magnetic bearing has to stay away from other magnets or the impeller could stop spinning, but otherwise this type of pump will last a very long time.
We would have had this decades ago if it weren't for politics.
How does it modulate pressure & rate? Will it have some chemo/neuro feedback?
Just curious if there’s a sleep-rest-active settings?
"Yamaha!" "You pick the heart"
beware the recalls
“I’d buy that for a dollar”
At this rate our corporate overlords are going to rule for 100s of years 🙃
The interesting thing is you will not have a pulse with this new heart.
Does it automatically adjust to workload? If the guy starts lifting some boxes, will it start beating faster?
The disk will speed up. The heart does not beat however.
@@jackfrost2014 How does it respond? Biological hearts respond to carbon dioxide chemoreceptors in the aorta.
@gregorymalchuk272 The artificial heart is controlled by a computer. It monitors things like blood pressure and carbon dioxide and makes adjustments accordingly. I am simplifying how the process functions, though.
It will keep you alive
@@jackfrost2014 The disk spins up and spins down every second to simulate a heart beat.
Does that mean those people would not have a heart beat?
No heartbeat. Just a whirrrrr
@@benbohannon That would be a fun party trick.
@@benbohannonthat’s not true. The body would wear out insanely quick and go into shock without a beat.
Actually, yes, because the heart can be programmed to rotate at different speed to imitate a heart rate, though it is not necessary, they will try to make us as natural as posible
@@Voltaje_YT I was wondering if these had a pulsatile function even though it is a centrifugal pump.
The million dollar question is, can everyone afford it? Absolutely not!
Nobody could afford any brand new breakthrough, doesn't mean the price won't come down, BUT at some point one has to ask what a human life is worth. You can't ask hundreds or thousands of people to work their whole lives for nothing just to save 1 person, so then the question really becomes how much is too much to ask of others.
Erosion corrosion can wear out anything. But maybe they have a super alloy that would erode so slowly that you would die of other causes before it failed.
Just got a sudden urge to watch 'Repo:The Genetic Opera' again. Not sure why.
How does this work though? If it doesn’t pump what’s the alternative?
It doesn't pump the blood it sucks it in. Think of a fan or an air purifier. It does the same thing just with blood.
Notice how this happened in the US instead of some other country.
US is the leader in medicine, no other country even comes close.
explain?
How it is powered?
This eerily reminds me of that movie Repo Men...
The problem I see is what will continually supply the power?
How is this not top billing on all news agencies?!!!!!
What's the power source tho?
Lithium batteries from China
@@integr8er66 sounds like your just farting from the mouth
First cyborg is born(hasta la vista)
I do not consent.
Imagine reaching for your backup battery pack for your heart only for the charge to be depleted. Of course speaking of things potentially in the future.
"From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me."
In the future we no longer need a heart and can live hundred years like a normal thing.
I can only assume that in the future wearable technology will monitor all body functions to detect health issues before such surgery is required.
WELL, CONGRATULATIONS
Hopefully that magnet is shielded really well, because if not the user is going to have issues with the iron in their blood.
iron in blood is not really affected by magnets actually, someone posted putting a big magnet near a bucket of pig blood and nothing happened
@@Preinstallablei have seen the opposite.
@@LivingTheDream77 can you send it then? i'm willing to be proven wrong
Sooo how does it get power????
It will be really interesting to see a comprison between Bivacor and Scandinavian Real Heart.
Right now the stock value of Real Heart is like a hot dog stand, but it looks very promising.
Unlike many others here, i have actually seen the press conference. And there is a lot to clarify.
- This is not the first artificial heart ever implanted.
- It is not made to permanetly replace a heart, but to bridge the time till a doner is found.
- It is however (and thats the big news) the closest we have come jet to a possibly permanet artificial heart.
it will need way more develpment till then. But it alredy makes a cool AF sound :D.
Sign me up. Tony stark rises
Good to see in Australian doctor on the lead team
Insane! 😳 Modern medicine is a miracle.
As a color note, not only it doesn't wear out but it also doesn't produce a heartbeat, since it's a rotating mechanism. So. In theory. You could be alive without a pulse.
Hahaha
Incredible! ❤…I’m also surprised at the advancement of zip ties!
Idk why i had to find this randomly. This is huge news. I am very curious to learn more about how it works. I'm guessing they're generating the magnetic field over a conductor? One thing I am a bit morbidly curious about is how this would interact with death in general as your heart would never naturally stop. Bit scary to think about.
It appears to be a constant flow pump. I wonder if they included flow variation which helps mimic the flow characteristics of a human heart. I also wonder if that is even needed. It's quite a novel and interesting design. I hope it does well.
I was wondering about that too.
@@user-vp1sc7tt4m yes it does. It can vary speed and even has a pulsatile mode. Watch the full video
Note: Leviticus (dumb name) in Israel has implanted a total heart with wireless nighttime charging but after about 5 years blood clotting plaques form without a good understanding of why. Also, the main obstacle has been wireless power which is not discussed here.
I’m the next 10 years I wonder how technology in Medicine will look like
Which tells us that the true heart of a person is its brain, the only organ that cannot be mechanically replaced.
True
There's NO WAY OUR INSURANCE COMPANIES HERE IN THE US WILL COVER ANY OF THESE "EXPERIMENTAL" PROCEDURES!!?REMEMBER FOLKS OUR NATION IS LAST IN EVERYTHING ESPECIALLY UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE BECAUSE HERE IN THE STATES, THE HEALTHCARE MODEL IS BUILT AS A BUSINESS MODEL!!
Well duh insurance isn't covering experimental procedures, it's unproven. The company definitely comped the expense for it in this case though, they're ecstatic just to be able to implement it into a person for the first time. It's literally invaluable research data for them if they want to be able to eventually push this to market, the barrier of entry has to be suitably low for the subject to accept.
Do you work in healthcare? The USA is also one of the most unhealthy countries in the worst with half the population either pre or full on diabetic. The majority of premature death in the USA is self inflicted and induced by poor sedentary lifestyle choices, addictions and non willing to sacrifice and change habits.
The question I have is : how does this heart knows when its time to beat faster or slower ?
not bad, only thing it has to pulsate meaning motor pulses , the body is made with a normal hearty we have all the schematics .. tissue functions oxidization mixing pressure and vacuuming it's what the heart does to manufacture the blood we need before we take what we want from it.
Its like a turbo charger that literally powers a human
How do the arteries stay on the mechanical heart outlets?
What happens when u do MRI scan with that metal inside u?
Awesome!!
Great Job 👍 👌
Mind instantly goes to the movie repo man. All for it though.
Did they ask they patient and was it necessary?
I see they took the inspiration from Crank 2: High Voltage.
now the brain !!!!, The current version of the BiVACOR TAH provides around five hours of operation per battery charge.
Finally some news .
So does it charge by USB-C port?
Doctor: that comes with a10 year warranty for unlimited beats.
Add 50,000 for an additional 2 year warranty and 100,000 co pay
This would terrify me what happens if I need a place again
Bad summary headline and descriptions. This isn't the first "total" or in-patient artificial heart, there are lots of such models and have been for decades. The new aspect is the non-beating, floating spinner that avoids wear -- not unlike the old Wenkel combustion engines if they spun on superconducting magnets. This means they have a better chance of lasting the rest of a transplant recipient's life instead of being only a bridge.
Is it battery operated, solar, wind, hydro?
I was asking myself the same question, how Is It powered? would you need to carry a backpack with batteries? And how would them connect to the hearth? A wire goes out and inside you? Do the batteries go inside you chest? How big the batteries? 5 volt, 12 volt, 24? Do i get a USB C charger with them? 😂
Such great news. Wonder what the cost is going to be?.
So this is essentially a VAD (ventricular assist device).
What if you die but your heart won’t stop beating
Keeps your organs a little fresher but as long as you get cpr your brain should be okay and you might get resuscitated
Im sure its similar to a pacemaker and just wave a magnet to shut it off
Great question. What is death?
@@benbohannon decomposition. Once cells decompose, they are dead, they are not coming back.
your not dead then lol
How many other hospitals can get this for the world? Saving life’s!
To early to tell really
now, let's talk about insurance coverage for the device.
Best of luck,
Judging from the turbine-like design, will heart rate become RPM instead of BPM?
If you install this and also install ECMO can you live without heart or lungs? Not having a pulse and benefitting from a continuous supply of O2 without breathing will make for some phenomenal long range shooting competitions at the paraolympics.
But can it clog with fat and stuff from the blood
As interesting as this is, i'm wondering why reinvent the wheel? Don't get me wrong, this is a great milestone as far as making replacement organs that have a reduced failure/rejection rate however i would imagine an organ that has a dual purpose like a heart and lung that complete cardiac and pulmonary functions while maintaining BP and filtering air. Of course that would also require better kidneys as well as a host of other improvements. Until then i look forward to one day developing something like this with great minds out there.