mylittleinsanities@reddthat.com to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoNo person has ever (correctly) felt their own pulse and had it come back as 0.message-squaremessage-square20linkfedilinkarrow-up158arrow-down18
arrow-up150arrow-down1message-squareNo person has ever (correctly) felt their own pulse and had it come back as 0.mylittleinsanities@reddthat.com to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square20linkfedilink
minus-squareagentTeiko@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up72·3 days agohttps://healthclick.in/the-incredible-world-of-artificial-hearts-living-without-a-pulse/
minus-squaremylittleinsanities@reddthat.comOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 days agoWhy does everyone always have to show up in the comments and pop my bubble /s
minus-squareyermaw@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up6·2 days agoYou must use this superpower for good. “Nobody has ever invented a cure for cancer that can be created using a simple process with common household ingredients.”
minus-squareotacon239@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up13·3 days agoOkay this would be surreal as fuck after the surgery, feeling for your own pulse and getting nothing in return. That’s straight up sci-fi. Now add the whirring and you’re just a proper cyborg at the point. What a time to be alive.
minus-squareAlmightyDoorman@kbin.earthlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·3 days agoFunfact, VADs often still have a small pulsatile change, e.g. 2 seconds at 5000rpm, 2 seconds at 5400, so there is a difference it’s just not palpable. The body seems to adjust better to this slight variatons instead of a continuous flow.
https://healthclick.in/the-incredible-world-of-artificial-hearts-living-without-a-pulse/
Why does everyone always have to show up in the comments and pop my bubble /s
You must use this superpower for good.
“Nobody has ever invented a cure for cancer that can be created using a simple process with common household ingredients.”
Brutal comeback
Okay this would be surreal as fuck after the surgery, feeling for your own pulse and getting nothing in return. That’s straight up sci-fi.
Now add the whirring and you’re just a proper cyborg at the point. What a time to be alive.
RoboMcConnel.
Funfact, VADs often still have a small pulsatile change, e.g. 2 seconds at 5000rpm, 2 seconds at 5400, so there is a difference it’s just not palpable. The body seems to adjust better to this slight variatons instead of a continuous flow.