{"id":434,"date":"2025-09-17T11:36:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T11:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.science.sbtechem.com\/?p=434"},"modified":"2025-09-17T11:36:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T11:36:10","slug":"the-worlds-first-heartless-human-living-without-a-pulse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.science.sbtechem.com\/?p=434","title":{"rendered":"THE WORLD&#8217;S FIRST HEARTLESS HUMAN, LIVING WITHOUT A PULSE"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"7a19b57d3f502e506f541b4c6899bb20\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n\tatOptions = {\r\n\t\t'key' : '763760c8ca37b90150f32ad474f817c0',\r\n\t\t'format' : 'iframe',\r\n\t\t'height' : 250,\r\n\t\t'width' : 300,\r\n\t\t'params' : {}\r\n\t};\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/electthirteenth.com\/763760c8ca37b90150f32ad474f817c0\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>In March of 2011, a gentleman named Craig Lewis, a 55-year-old experiencing a life threatening heart disease, named \u201camyloidosis\u201d, was admitted to the Texas Heart Institute. It\u2019s a uncommon autoimmune disease that fills inner organs with a sticky protein that roots the quick heart, kidney and liver disaster. Without instant interference Lewis would have possibly died within days.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<article>\n<div id=\"post-body-9098796922262623208\" class=\"post-body entry-content\">\n<div>\n<div>Luckily, Dr. Billy Cohn and Dr. Bud Frazier from the Institute came up with what they call a \u201ccontinuous<\/div>\n<div>flow\u201d device which would let blood to circulate through his body without a pulse.\u00a0<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>They detached Mr<\/div>\n<div>Lewis\u2019 heart and then connected the device -the patient was up, well and speaking with doctors the<\/div>\n<div>very same day.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhzgnzxUtw7G2hVbttvm10sYRGem1UxJPczkJ9ze26RwzsJPNJzaFIt7iBQCzOBoJ0TDCGEMlkz-aEQ15OMH9l3rZtNOurLA_0drHd4aoUDOECV6dk_CK-WLM9WB3dr5Om4x-cyjESE2Q\/s640\/lewis-728x400.jpeg\" width=\"640\" height=\"351\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>Dr. Cohn is a expert surgeon, as well as an discoverer and scientist who has consumed a large part of<\/div>\n<div>his life developing technologies to substitute or repair the human heart. The most distinguished device<\/div>\n<div>being what is called the Left Ventricular Assist Device, also termed as LVADs.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>Cohn teamed up with Dr. Bud Frazier to make a new discovery that uses the technology from<\/div>\n<div>LVADs to duplicate the functions of the heart\u2019s right and left ventricles.\u00a0<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>They (inappropriately)<\/div>\n<div>tried their device on 70 calves, all of whom gave a flat line on an EKG, no heart rate or pulse,<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0yet they were flawlessly normal, ate normally and related with each other normally but again, had<\/div>\n<div>no heartbeat.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>As stated above, Craig Lewis was the first human to take this technology. The process took less<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0than 48 hours and was a big success. His kidneys and liver were not so lucky though, they were<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0fading him and after a few months his family asked the doctors to disconnect the device.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>Below is a clip named \u201cHeart Stop Beating.\u201d It\u2019s the story of these two doctors and the procedure<\/div>\n<div>they had to go through to substitute this man\u2019s dying heart with a \u2018continuous flow\u2019 device.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/33741794\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In March of 2011, a gentleman named Craig Lewis, a 55-year-old experiencing a life threatening heart disease, named \u201camyloidosis\u201d, was admitted to the Texas Heart Institute. It\u2019s a uncommon autoimmune disease that fills inner organs with a sticky protein that roots the quick heart, kidney and liver disaster. Without instant interference Lewis would have possibly\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.sbtechem.com\/?p=434\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.science.sbtechem.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.science.sbtechem.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.science.sbtechem.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.science.sbtechem.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.science.sbtechem.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.science.sbtechem.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":436,"href":"https:\/\/www.science.sbtechem.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions\/436"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.science.sbtechem.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.science.sbtechem.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.science.sbtechem.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.science.sbtechem.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}