New Heart

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‎03-03-2014 6:19 PM - edited ‎03-03-2014 6:21 PM

3D-printed 'electronic glove' could help keep your heart beating for ever
 
 
 
 

Custom-fitted membrane expands and contracts with the heart, and could one day deliver electric shocks in response to a heart attack

JAMES VINCENT Author Biography
 
 
 

Monday 03 March 2014

Scientists have created a revolutionary new electronic membrane that could replace pacemakers, fitting over a heart to keep it beating regularly over an indefinite period of time.

The device uses a “spider-web-like network of sensors and electrodes” to continuously monitor the heart’s electrical activity and could, in the future, deliver electrical shocks maintain a healthy heart-rate.

Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Washington University in St. Louis used computer modelling technology and a 3D-printer to create a prototype membrane and fit it to a rabbit’s heart, keeping the organ operating perfectl “outside of the body in a nutrient and oxygen-rich solution”.

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