A woman in Singapore has been implanted with an artificial heart that doesn't pulse. It just generates a continuous pressurized flow of blood.
When you think about it, why would you make an artificial heart pulse? It's easier to engineer a pump that operates continuously than one that stops and starts constantly. I suppose there are limits to how the blood vessels of the body can handle it, and I wonder how the body will react to the very unnatural blood flow this pump will create.
But I'm surprised it hasn't been done until now.
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