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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@lemmy.world 71 points 12 hours ago (4 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.

[–] Inf_V@kbin.earth 62 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
[–] infeeeee@lemm.ee 49 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago

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

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[–] Arbiter@lemmy.world 43 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 11 hours 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.

[–] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 46 points 11 hours 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@lemmy.world 20 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] Psaldorn@lemmy.world 9 points 10 hours ago (1 children)
[–] edwardbear@lemmy.world 3 points 2 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@lemmy.world 5 points 10 hours ago

Memories awoken.

[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 13 points 10 hours ago

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

[–] trashboat@midwest.social 23 points 9 hours ago

I’m imagining some sort of an Iron Man situation