Australian man successfully receives titanium heart after 6-hour operation
www.abc.net.au
A New South Wales man with heart failure lived with the artificial heart for over 100 days while waiting to be matched with a heart donor.

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.

  • @[email protected]English
    26•14 hours ago

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

    • GormadtEnglish
      46•14 hours ago

      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_JoeEnglish
        20•14 hours ago

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

        • PsaldornEnglish
          9•13 hours ago

          Chev Chelios ❤️

          • @edwardbearEnglish
            3•5 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

        • ElectricEnglish
          5•13 hours ago

          Memories awoken.