Biomedical Engineering
VCU Medical Center leads study of first US portable driver for powering the total artificial heart
Published in Blood Weekly, September 30th, 2010
The VCU Pauley Heart Center is one of up to 30 centers that will investigate a portable, mechanical driver that can power patients' artificial hearts and enable them to recover outside the hospital environment, including at home and at step-down facilities.
"This is the kind of technology that changes lives," said John Duval, CEO of MCV Hospitals at the VCU Medical...
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