Wednesday, June 15, 2011

The Double-LVAD

There's a nice picture of a paired left ventricular assist devices (I guess to serve as left and right ventricular assist devices) over at Wired magazine:


Kind of cool.

Of course it would be nicer if it wasn't a post-op chest xray with four chest tubes...

-Wes

Addendum: h/t to @rlbates on Twitter to pointing me to this nice piece from NPR about this case.

1 comment:

Tim said...

Obamacare might spring for one , but two?!