00:00This is the big one, you know, this is quite incredible, this is a device that's been in
00:11the making for 20 years as you've heard earlier, it's an incredibly novel device and ingenious
00:19really the way it works and it works and so to finally get this device to help some of
00:26our sick patients has been enormously gratifying.
00:30Yeah, well you're sort of lost in the moment I guess and there's a lot going on but it's
00:36an incredibly easy device, you just, you stitch those to the atria as I said and then you
00:41click, literally click the pump in and then hand off this drive line and turn it on.
00:48So that's a sort of, you know, a moment where everyone holds their breath but it turns on
00:53and it works and then you slowly wean the patient off the heart-lung machine which is
00:58keeping them alive while you do the surgery and the pump takes over and it did.
01:04The older technology is clunky, it's bigger than this and it has a lot of moving parts
01:11in it, in particular valves that have to open and close so whenever the blood comes, interacts
01:18with components like that there's risk for failure.
01:22This literally has one moving part in it as you saw earlier, a spinning rotor, one side
01:28of it pumps to the lungs, the other side pumps to the body so there's no contact points,
01:33there's no bearings, there's nothing to fail in this device.
01:36Yeah, so he had the device for 104 days before his transplant, so three and a half months
01:41and he was discharged from hospital along that way and so that was, you know, a world
01:46first for us.
01:47I mean, ultimately that's what our goal is, to return these patients back to a normal
01:50quality of life and he did return to a normal quality of life outside of the hospital so,
01:56you know, this gives us an incredible hope that in the future we won't need to bring
02:01him back in for a transplant, that they can just stay out, keep the device, you know,
02:04for the rest of their life.
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