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

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.

Bernie's Time Machine: A Chemical Explosion, the Peacekeeper, and the First Artificial Heart

“Good evening from CBS News. This is Newsbreak.”The day: December 11, 1982. The network: CBS.The show: Newsbreak (a CBS News commercial-break update on the news of the day).This brief segment is a fascinating snapshot of what was going on in the country near the end of 1982: an accident at a chemical plant, President Ronald Reagan working on winning the…

An Australian man lived for 105 days with a titanium artificial heart before receiving a donor, setting a record for the longest time using the device.