The World's First Heartless Man

[Desirous]

Science!!!

Meet the world's first HEARTLESS man who is able to live without a pulse

In March of last year, Craig Lewis, 55, was dying from a heart condition that caused build-ups of abnormal proteins, and not even a pacemaker could help save his life.

But two doctors from the Texas Heart Institute proposed a revolutionary new solution – install a ‘continuous flow’ device that would allow blood to circulate his body without a pulse.

Dr Billy Cohn and Dr Bud Frazier installed the device after removing Mr Lewis’ heart. Within a day, the patient was up and speaking with physicians.

The two doctors had developed the device some time before and had tested it on nearly 50 calves.

They removed the animals’ hearts, and by the next day, the calves were doing everything they were the day before – eating, sleeping, and moving – but this time, without a heart pumping blood through their bodies.

So, with the permission of Mr Lewis’ wife Linda, Dr Cohn and Dr Frazier installed the heart in March 2011.

The device works by supplying a continuous flow of blood through the body, using blades to move it along.

Dr Cohn said it contains ‘a moderate amount’ of homemade materials.

An incredible short directed by Jeremiah Zagar shows the journey of the world’s first heartless man in stunning detail.

His feature length documentary In A Dream was nominated for two Emmy’s in 2010.

According to NPR, thousands of patients – including former Vice President dikk Cheney – have similar ventricular assist devices, though it only assists an already beating heart.

Mr Lewis’ wife was astonished when she tried to listen for his pulse. ‘I listened and it was a hum, which was amazing,’ she told NPR. ‘He didn’t have a pulse.'

The Texas Heart Institute said that prior to having the revolutionary new device installed, Mr Lewis was reliant on a dialysis machine, a breathing machine, and an external blood pump.

In March of last year, Texas Heart Institute president Dr James T. Willerson called it ‘medical history in the making.’

The first artificial human heart prototype was successfully implanted in 1969 by Dr Denton Cooley.

 

[Yakno1]

That's cray

 

[Desirous]

That's cray

It's crazy, brilliant and scary all at the same time!

 

[Chill]

We're getting closer and closer to true bionics. I wonder how does this work with the demand from exercise.

 

[the cac mamba]

 

[jalamanta]

Can this nikka lift?

 

[Desirous]

Can this nikka lift?

I don't think he's worried about that...probably just happy to be alive.

 

[Deflatedhoopdreams]

I love modern day medicine

 

[ChrisDorner]

 

[ADK]

Blades? I know it prolly doesn't hurt but they need to rename how it moves blood

shyt sounds painful as hell

 

[Remote]

This is interesting.
So theoretically, heart failure could be a thing of the past. Though I'm sure it's cost prohibitive right now to have this procedure done.
Other organs failing is probably what will kill him, but I really wonder how this impacts the possibility of immortality.

 

[MikelArteta]

I've been heartless since 2009

 

[cleanface coney]

he gone fukk so many hoes doe

 

[ThaBronxBully]

This is interesting.
So theoretically, heart failure could be a thing of the past. Though I'm sure it's cost prohibitive right now to have this procedure done.
Other organs failing is probably what will kill him, but I really wonder how this impacts the possibility of immortality.

Im No Expert Or Nothing But I Remember Hearing Your DNA Breaking Down Is What Eventually Kills You, Basically We're Ticking Timebombs With An Expiration Date, So All The Fake Ograns In The World Cant Save Us

Unless Science Finds A Way To fukk With Whatever Keeps Our DNA Molecules Producing

 

[Desirous]

I've been heartless since 2009

Yours is a state of mind more than anything