LVAD story from Plano, TX
Jul. 22nd, 2011 08:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
walkitoutA friend pointed me at this because of a family connection:
http://www.the33tv.com/news/kdaf-space-shuttle-invention-story,0,4551178.story
If, like me, you went, "what's an LVAD"? My husband's answer was partly what is captured here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ventricular_assist_device
and partly, "That's what Dick Cheney got." R. also said, this is sort of sneaking up to an artificial heart.
It's a nice little story connecting medical technology with its origins in the engineering problems of space flight.
Thanks, M.!
http://www.the33tv.com/news/kdaf-space-shuttle-invention-story,0,4551178.story
If, like me, you went, "what's an LVAD"? My husband's answer was partly what is captured here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ventricular_assist_device
and partly, "That's what Dick Cheney got." R. also said, this is sort of sneaking up to an artificial heart.
It's a nice little story connecting medical technology with its origins in the engineering problems of space flight.
Thanks, M.!