Wow, sounds like a super hero don't it? Truth be told a few decades ago and he would have been. Turbines it seems are not the purview of jet aircraft. A pair turbine like pumps make up the centrifugal turbine heart pump developed by doctors at the Texas Heart Institute. That's right, we are talking about a blood pumping device that first off doesn't pump and if it doesn't pump, anyone fitted with just such a device will not have a pulse...weird huh? But the only reason we have a pulse is that the heart is very specialized muscle. Once a muscle contracts, to do more work, it must relax. (and it has to pick up fuel and dump off waste)
According to the Dvice blog article:
According to the Dvice blog article:
- (the device has) been tested for quite a while on animals along with one successful human trial — with no ill effects so far, too.
- The FDA still has to approve this technology, but it's looking like turbine heart replacements might be the next step forward in medical implants.
2 comments:
This brings a new meaning to the old question.... "So, whatdya have under the hood???"
"O hell, you know... Just a souped up turbine!"
That lends the question, who would get one for the sake of being turbine powered....Batman mayhaps?
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