mylittleinsanities@reddthat.com to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoNo person has ever (correctly) felt their own pulse and had it come back as 0.message-squaremessage-square20fedilinkarrow-up160arrow-down18
arrow-up152arrow-down1message-squareNo person has ever (correctly) felt their own pulse and had it come back as 0.mylittleinsanities@reddthat.com to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square20fedilink
minus-squareagentTeiko@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up73·1 month agohttps://healthclick.in/the-incredible-world-of-artificial-hearts-living-without-a-pulse/
minus-squareotacon239@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up14·1 month agoOkay this would be surreal as fuck after the surgery, feeling for your own pulse and getting nothing in return. That’s straight up sci-fi. Now add the whirring and you’re just a proper cyborg at the point. What a time to be alive.
minus-squareAlmightyDoorman@kbin.earthlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·1 month agoFunfact, VADs often still have a small pulsatile change, e.g. 2 seconds at 5000rpm, 2 seconds at 5400, so there is a difference it’s just not palpable. The body seems to adjust better to this slight variatons instead of a continuous flow.
minus-squaremylittleinsanities@reddthat.comOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 month agoWhy does everyone always have to show up in the comments and pop my bubble /s
minus-squareyermaw@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up7·1 month agoYou must use this superpower for good. “Nobody has ever invented a cure for cancer that can be created using a simple process with common household ingredients.”
https://healthclick.in/the-incredible-world-of-artificial-hearts-living-without-a-pulse/
Brutal comeback
Okay this would be surreal as fuck after the surgery, feeling for your own pulse and getting nothing in return. That’s straight up sci-fi.
Now add the whirring and you’re just a proper cyborg at the point. What a time to be alive.
RoboMcConnel.
Funfact, VADs often still have a small pulsatile change, e.g. 2 seconds at 5000rpm, 2 seconds at 5400, so there is a difference it’s just not palpable. The body seems to adjust better to this slight variatons instead of a continuous flow.
Why does everyone always have to show up in the comments and pop my bubble /s
You must use this superpower for good.
“Nobody has ever invented a cure for cancer that can be created using a simple process with common household ingredients.”