Biomedical Engineering

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Biomedical Engineering

• Bionics and Beyond The Future of Medicine

By Brennan Maloney-Krips
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Overview

• Biomedical Engineering
• What and Why
• Past and Present
• The Heart
• Heart Innovations
• The AbioCor
• Future

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The Biomedical Engineer
Biomedical Engineer
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The Biomedical Engineer
Biomedical Engineer
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History of Biomedical Engineering
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The Egyptians
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Innovations Small and Big
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The Human Heart
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A Wonder of Science
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Early Heart Innovations

• Robert Jarvik
• Patented in 1962
• First used in 1982
• 61 year old Barney Clark was the first
  recipient of the Jarvik-7 artificial heart

The Jarvik - 7
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Prosthetic Heart Valves
The Tilting-Disc
The Caged Ball
The Bileaflet
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Pacemakers Heart Helpers
First Pacemaker patented in 1926
Albert Hyman
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The AbioCor
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AbioMeds - AbioCor
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Robert Tools

• Suffered two heart attacks in 1992, followed by
  quadruple by-pass surgery.
• Developed congestive heart failure and diabetes.
• Mr. Tools was determined to be unsuitable for
  transplant due to other complications.
• Then diagnosed as being in severe end-stage heart
  failure.
• Evaluation on Tuesday, June 26, 2001. The AbioCor
  was implanted the following Monday, July 2.

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A Doctors Note
Interviewee Stan Henjum, II, M.D., F.A.C.C Uses
Biomedical Engineered Utensils Pacers, ICD
(implantable cardiac defibrillators),
fluoroscopic equipment, radiofrequency catheter
ablation, scalpels, suture, stents, and
angioplasty balloons Follows Heart Valves for
the rest of their lives. Regularly implants
heart pacemakers and caths (angiograms) Importanc
e of Devices The echo is invaluable in
evaluating them with the use of Doppler
techniques. Valve surgery is very demanding
surgery- though repair is technically more
challenging than replacement of the valve. No
AbioCor but has used an IABP-intra aortic balloon
pump which is an assist device for CHF/MI
patients. Orthopedic Colleagues work with BEs
in Joint Replacement. How important are
specialized utensils and machines designed by
BEs The devices we use in cardiology are
critical pacers, ICDs, valves, stents,
angioplasty have greatly altered the care of
heart patients worldwide- still the leading
killer in this country but we are now neck and
neck with cancer.
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Summary

• What Biomedical Engineer is
• Why Biomedical Engineering is important
• History
• Tools, Utensils, Machines
• The Heart
• Pacemakers
• Heart Valves
• AbioCor

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The Future of Medicine