Artificial Heart
Daniel D’Elia
4th Block

Introduction
• Around 50,000 people wait for heart
transplants, only about 2000 of them get one
How effective is an artificial heart?

Artificial Heart
• Due to the demand of
heart transplant, scientist
needed to come up with
an answer to the problem
• With the first successful
transplant happening in
2001

Artificial Heart
• The successful transplant gave many people
hopes with the success of it
• The AbioCor is able to pump more than 10
liters per minute, which is enough for
everyday activities.

Artificial Heart
• The new heart is
unable to completely
fuction like a real
heart, by pumping
blood in two
directions
simotaniously

Battery
• The heart has an
internal battery
good for 30 minutes
for activities like
showering, while
the outside
battery, worn on the
waist, is good for 5
hours

Surgery
• The average time of surgery is 7 hours
• The first surgery had 30 people working on
the surgery

Steps in surgery
•Cut into the •Hook up the
patient’s heart new heart
Test to make
•Put the patient •Patient become sure heart is
on lung/heart independent working
machine form all
machines

Artificial Heart
• The heart is going to continue to become
more like a real heart
• The process is proved to be possible and work
http://videos.howstuffworks.com/health

Conclusion
• There have been 11
successful artificial heart
transplants to this day
• The first was in 2001
• Artificial hearts are not
error proof and still have a
way to go