New Artificial Heart
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) OXFORD (England), May 13. Dr Kenneth Reid, a young Oxford surgeon, said last night that he had developed an artificial heart which ‘he believed eould put Britain in the lead in heart surgery.
But, he said, the co-opera-tion of British industry was needed to develop it. His design, which he has patented, allows the temporary replacement of a patient’s heart by the artificial heart while the real one is removed, repaired, and put back. The artificial heart is the same size as the real one; and it would do away with the large heart-lung machine. Dr Reid, who designed his artificial heart in the Nuffield Department of Surgery at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford, said the main advantage compared with transplant operations, was that the patient got his old heart back, so that there were ho rejection problems.
Dr Reid’s “heart” is described as being “a physiological valve which is flexible on all surfaces and which contracts to supply the blood in
the same way as a normal heart does.” The artificial heart designed by Dr Denton Cooley in America has three rigid walls and only one flexible wall.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31987, 14 May 1969, Page 17
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