Robotic pump helps hearts keep beating

摘要

ITS a pump that could bring your heart back to life. A lack of donated hearts often means people with heart failure die waiting for a replacement. But now a robotic device has been designed to help out with pumping duties to keep diseased hearts beating for longer. Nikolay Vasiiyev at Boston Children's Hospital, one of the creators of the device, hopes it may even allow a full heart recovery, rendering a transplant unnecessary.