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Originally Posted by Penguin
This is actually a pretty good example on how important interdisciplinarity thinking is and not staying in the boundaries of one field.
The question arises how the device adapts to necessary changes of blood flow in the body and how the pressure is regulated.
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Lewis is the patient, he did not develop the heart.
the irony would be however that he spent his life working on pumps and turbines and in the end, pumps and turbines would extend his life allowing him to say his final goodbyes to his family.
as for the flow and pressure regulation... no clue. I would assume it would maintain a constant flow and pressure. in which case, the life of the individual would have to be pretty sedentary; ie, not running any marathons.
then again.
give the technology time and im sure a small computer, internal or external would be able to adjust these factors to meet the demands of the body