The one hope of saving Megan's life was an operation to implant a mechanical pump that would assist her heart.
Like all the other participants, he has been fitted with a mechanical pump to keep his blood flowing while waiting for a suitable donor heart.
It was important that Harvey saw the heart as a pump, but he saw it as an organic pump, rather than as a mechanical pump.
A14 SCIENCE TIMES F1-10 Heart Pump Found Effective An implanted mechanical pump that assists a failing heart, but does not replace it, can significantly prolong the lives of people dying of heart disease, a landmark study found.
An implanted mechanical pump that assists a failing heart, but does not replace it, can significantly prolong the lives of people who are dying of heart disease, according to a landmark study reported here today.
An implanted mechanical pump that assists a failing heart, but does not replace it, could save the lives of up to 100,000 Americans each year, a landmark study has concluded.
The fourth article, on Aug. 22, reported on Miles Coulson, a 4-month-old baby whose heart had failed and who was being kept alive by a mechanical pump at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford University.
His new mechanical pump, a partial artificial heart known as a ventricular assist device, leaves patients without a pulse because it pushes blood continuously instead of mimicking the heart's own beat.
A rescue worker manning a roaring mechanical pump, expelling hundreds of gallons of filthy black water from a semi-submerged building, explained that the flood defence teams had been packing so many sandbags, they had run out of the usual sacks.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney is recuperating from surgery to implant the kind of mechanical pump now being given to a small but growing number of people with heart failure so severe that they would most likely die within a few months without it.
When, in the Song of Bernadette, Bernadette compared the Shulamite's neck to a tower of ivory, he saw an analogy that nobody had seen before; when William Harvey compared the heart of a fish to a mechanical pump, he did the same; and when the caricaturist draws a nose like a cucumber, he again does just that.
