The people who run a risk of heart failure would have two connectors to blood circulation system implanted, enabling automatic attachment of the specialized pump.
Pumps would be delivered by drones, which would self- activate by heart failure signals, and fly to patients guided by their GPS location, align by use of spider-like feet, to provide the required pumping.
It is unacceptable that people die simply because of a pump failure, while all other metabolic reactions in body would be working just fine. People should not be dying of heart failures. Or should we just all have two hearts?-- Mindey, Sep 01 2015 Problem description :) https://infty.xyz/goal/7/detail/ [Mindey, Sep 13 2015] " people who run a risk of heart failure "
Technically, wouldn't that be all of us ?-- normzone, Sep 01 2015 It's not that easy (or safe) to have a permanent, connectable port implanted, though maybe not impossible.
I've often wondered if you couldn't make an artificial heart (surgically implanted) in the form of a peristaltic pump that squeezed the aorta (or other major artery or vein) to pump blood, without its actually having to come into contact with the blood.-- MaxwellBuchanan, Sep 01 2015 Hmm. You could just stick a couple of bags around the heart that would expand and contract, sort of like a built in CPR machine. Wouldn't have to worry about valves getting clogged and such.-- doctorremulac3, Sep 01 2015 There was an effort a few years ago to place chiller units in some locations where defibrillators were already stored. The idea was that someone suffering a heart attack and not revived immediately by a defibrillator could be cooled using this machine. The machine would fill their lungs with an oxygenated saline solution and circulate it while holding it at a cold temperature. The cold fluid in the lungs quickly cools the brain, preserving life during transport to a hospital, where the cause of the heart attack could be treated before re-warming the patient.
I'm not sure why it never caught on.
//It is unacceptable that people die //
I agree. I've come to accept that it's not my fault that people are willing to let themselves die. For myself, I signed up for cryonic freezing and hope for the best.-- sninctown, Sep 01 2015 Thanks for the image of a vampire which,with very very wide fangs, pumps your blood while fully hooked.-- wjt, Sep 02 2015 [wjt], the more advanced versions of the device would be capable of drilling to the human body..-- Mindey, Sep 02 2015 If you're going to the trouble and expense of giving these people surgically-implanted connectors, why would you not spend the extra money on giving them a pump to carry around with them?
My initial enthusiasm for this idea has been tempered by thinking about it for 15 seconds.-- MaxwellBuchanan, Sep 06 2015 Cybervampires ministering to the ill!
There was a flying device in the movie Phantasm that did something like this, or possibly drilled through people. Itmade a big impression on me. I was impressed that the thing did not seem like a phantasm or spectral in any way: it was 100% killer robot. And who builds things like that? At least I know the last part now: Mindey. Confess: these flying bots were part of Mork's plans for world domination.-- bungston, Sep 08 2015 [mindey] I got your email - did you get my reply?-- MaxwellBuchanan, Sep 20 2015 random, halfbakery