The beatless heart: Man lives 5 weeks without a pulse after doctors invent new artificial heart

Submitted by Jur on Tue, 07/03/2012 - 21:47

Heart Stop Beating is the story of Billy Cohn & Bud Frazier, two visionary doctors from the Texas Heart Institute, who in March of 2011 successfully replaced a dying man's heart with a 'continuous flow' device they developed, proving that life was possible without a pulse or a heart beat.