"Artificial hearts are life-sustaining but imperfect devices
with a controversial history
but also ongoing relevance regarding the desirability and sustainability of expensive end-stage disease therapies.
Their clinical use elicits questions of “success,” costs, hopes, fears, and more in a high-technology medical world.
Do these devices “save lives” (as a curative fix) or “buy time” (as an expensive, makeshift measure prolonging the inevitable) for end-stage heart failure patients?
Are the two aims mutually exclusive?
Is one intention less valid? "
*artificial hearts by Shelly Mackellar
with a controversial history
but also ongoing relevance regarding the desirability and sustainability of expensive end-stage disease therapies.
Their clinical use elicits questions of “success,” costs, hopes, fears, and more in a high-technology medical world.
Do these devices “save lives” (as a curative fix) or “buy time” (as an expensive, makeshift measure prolonging the inevitable) for end-stage heart failure patients?
Are the two aims mutually exclusive?
Is one intention less valid? "
*artificial hearts by Shelly Mackellar
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