Re: Heart pump's 'tremendous success' celebrated

From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Thu Aug 02 2001 - 01:59:40 MDT


On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 11:29:31PM -0700, Olga Bourlin wrote:
> "He was facing death 30 days ago and he knew it," Dowling said. "He was very cognizant of his mortality. Now he's looking forward to life. He's happy to be here."
>
> http://seattlep-i.nwsource.com/national/33581_medi02.shtml

Yes, these pumps seem to be quite successful. There have been several
operations of these recently in Sweden too. It was amazing meeting Peter
Houghton (another artificial heart recipient from the UK) at TransVision
- he vas such a vital guy.

Now we better make those battery packs smaller...

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