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By criteria doctors conventionally use to analyze patients, Craig Lewis was dead. He had no heartbeat, no pulse, his EKG was flatlined. Yet he left the hospital and returned home to his wife.
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4. Jerry_Fkn_Maguir commented 12 years ago
What happens when they run? There's no increase in heart rate?
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8. cyberdevil commented 12 years ago
Amazing. Really amazing. I wonder how long he'll live.
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10. bonzenbrunzer commented 12 years ago
hahaha #9, can't wait... zombie slayer time....
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12. huldu commented 12 years ago
The problem with current technology is that it requires a battery. These are not small. The heart is just a muscle so of course a mechanic heart can do the same. I thought they had been doing this for far longer tho. One organ that is very hard if not impossible to replace right now is the brain. What mankind needs is a way to copy a brain onto another format or into a host brain. It's just a matter of time. ** When that happens humans will live on forever in one way or another. **
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14. CrackrJak commented 12 years ago
Craig Lewis, a 55-year-old Texas man, lived for five weeks without a pulse. He died due to underlying disease.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2003956/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2003956/
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18. sux2bu commented 12 years ago
Just before the funeral services, the undertaker came up to the very elderly widow and asked,
'How old was your husband?'
'98,' she replied, 'One year older than me'
'So you're 97,' the undertaker commented.
She smiled and responded , 'Hardly worth going home, is it?
'How old was your husband?'
'98,' she replied, 'One year older than me'
'So you're 97,' the undertaker commented.
She smiled and responded , 'Hardly worth going home, is it?
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21. nomaddaf commented 12 years ago
He lived for 5 weeks. Here is the story http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2003956/Craig-Lewiss-beatless-heart-Texas-husband-lives-5-weeks-pulse.html
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22. kissmybackbone commented 12 years ago
lots of comments about something nobody knows anything about so here is what it's all about with lots of answers to questions and opinions; enjoy !
http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-02/no-pulse-how-doctors-reinvented-human-heart?page=all
http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-02/no-pulse-how-doctors-reinvented-human-heart?page=all
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23. medicino commented 12 years ago
Well actually with this kind of device you don't need a pulse, since it provides constant pressure and blood flow and does not need to rest between beats which are the two main reason why we have heart beats, which BTW are nothing but one of the criteria to tell someone is dead more important is brain wave activity before hear beats and breathing.
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24. Judge-Jake commented 6 years ago
Well six years on and I've still not had a conversation with anyone without a pulse....... apart from Suxi.
+17 1. TitvsCaivs commented 12 years ago
comment too short