Sentence examples for suitable heart from inspiring English sources

Mr Green told the BBC the artificial heart had 'done the job very well for two years' allowing him to survive while waiting for a suitable heart.

It is common for patients to wait well over a year for a suitable heart and it is estimated that three people a day die while waiting for an organ transplant.

A confidential audit of deaths in England and Wales showed that approximately 92% of donors had a suitable cornea for donation, while 65% had a suitable heart for donation, and only 31% had suitable lungs for donation.

"I expect him to go home very soon, being able to do a lot more than before the operation - with a vastly improved quality of life - until we can find a suitable donor heart for him to have a heart transplant".

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.

They were originally designed as a stopgap to keep a patient alive for a few extra months while a suitable transplantable heart could be found.

"Matthew's condition was deteriorating rapidly and we discussed with him the possibility of receiving this device, because without it, he may not have survived the wait until a suitable donor heart could be found for him".

Modern electronic stethoscopes are suitable for heart sound recording.

This showed that only 25% of surgeons thought that carbon monoxide poisoned patients would be suitable allograft heart donors.

This approach is particularly suitable for heart rate, which can be obtained from different sources (every derivation of the electrocardiogram signal, SpO2 and arterial pressure) [ 26].

The AECG can be used to produce true R R interval data, which is suitable for heart rate variability studies if required.