Australian man leaves hospital with a titanium total artificial heart in a world first

The Manila Times

Australian man leaves hospital with a titanium total artificial heart in a world first  An Australian man with severe heart failure became the first person in the world to be discharged from hospital with BiVACOR’s Total Artificial Heart, the researchers and doctors announced on Wednesday, March 12.  The six-hour surgery took place in late November 2024 at St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney and the 40-year-old patient was then discharged with the BiVACOR total artificial heart in early February.  The BiVACOR ‘Total Artificial Heart’ was invented by Australian scientist Dr. Daniel Timms and is the world’s first titanium implantable device that can act as a complete replacement for the human heart, replicating both sides of the organ.  ST VINCENT'S HOSPITAL SYDNEY / BIVACOR / NETWORK TEN / REUTERS VIDEO  Subscribe to The Manila Times Channel - https://tmt.ph/YTSubscribe   Visit our website at https://www.manilatimes.net   Follow us:  Facebook - https://tmt.ph/facebook  Instagram - https://tmt.ph/instagram  Twitter - https://tmt.ph/twitter  DailyMotion - https://tmt.ph/dailymotion   Subscribe to our Digital Edition - https://tmt.ph/digital   Check out our Podcasts:  Spotify - https://tmt.ph/spotify  Apple Podcasts - https://tmt.ph/applepodcasts  Amazon Music - https://tmt.ph/amazonmusic  Deezer: https://tmt.ph/deezer  Tune In: https://tmt.ph/tunein  #TheManilaTimes #worldnews  #artificial  #heart

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00:00This is the big one, you know, this is quite incredible, this is a device that's been in

00:11the making for 20 years as you've heard earlier, it's an incredibly novel device and ingenious

00:19really the way it works and it works and so to finally get this device to help some of

00:26our sick patients has been enormously gratifying.

00:30Yeah, well you're sort of lost in the moment I guess and there's a lot going on but it's

00:36an incredibly easy device, you just, you stitch those to the atria as I said and then you

00:41click, literally click the pump in and then hand off this drive line and turn it on.

00:48So that's a sort of, you know, a moment where everyone holds their breath but it turns on

00:53and it works and then you slowly wean the patient off the heart-lung machine which is

00:58keeping them alive while you do the surgery and the pump takes over and it did.

01:04The older technology is clunky, it's bigger than this and it has a lot of moving parts

01:11in it, in particular valves that have to open and close so whenever the blood comes, interacts

01:18with components like that there's risk for failure.

01:22This literally has one moving part in it as you saw earlier, a spinning rotor, one side

01:28of it pumps to the lungs, the other side pumps to the body so there's no contact points,

01:33there's no bearings, there's nothing to fail in this device.

01:36Yeah, so he had the device for 104 days before his transplant, so three and a half months

01:41and he was discharged from hospital along that way and so that was, you know, a world

01:46first for us.

01:47I mean, ultimately that's what our goal is, to return these patients back to a normal

01:50quality of life and he did return to a normal quality of life outside of the hospital so,

01:56you know, this gives us an incredible hope that in the future we won't need to bring

02:01him back in for a transplant, that they can just stay out, keep the device, you know,

02:04for the rest of their life.

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