{"id":182617,"date":"2024-02-13T09:24:46","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T15:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/a-new-solution-for-energy-transfer-to-heart-pumps-mitigates-infection"},"modified":"2024-02-13T09:24:46","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T15:24:46","slug":"a-new-solution-for-energy-transfer-to-heart-pumps-mitigates-infection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/a-new-solution-for-energy-transfer-to-heart-pumps-mitigates-infection","title":{"rendered":"A new solution for energy transfer to heart pumps mitigates infection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O9p3tTp9-LQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Roughly 1 in 2 wearers of ventricular assist devices are diagnosed with an infection. The reason for this is the thick cable for the power supply. ETH Zurich researchers have now developed a solution to mitigate this problem.<\/p>\n<p>For many patients waiting for a <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/donor+heart\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">donor heart<\/a>, the only way to live a decent life is with the help of a pump attached directly to their heart. This pump requires about as much power as a TV, which it draws from an external battery via a seven-millimeter-thick cable. The system is handy and reliable, but it has one big flaw: Despite <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/medical+treatment\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">medical treatment<\/a>, the point at which the cable exits the abdomen can be breached by bacteria.<\/p>\n<p>ETH Zurich researcher and engineer Andreas Kourouklis is working to soon make this problem a thing of the past. With the support of ETH Zurich Professor Edoardo Mazza and physicians from the German Heart Center in Berlin, Kourouklis has developed a new cable system for heart pumps that doesn\u2019t cause infections. The findings are <a href=\"https:\/\/linkinghub.elsevier.com\/retrieve\/pii\/S2772950823002911\">published<\/a> in the journal Biomaterials Advances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roughly 1 in 2 wearers of ventricular assist devices are diagnosed with an infection. The reason for this is the thick cable for the power supply. ETH Zurich researchers have now developed a solution to mitigate this problem. For many patients waiting for a donor heart, the only way to live a decent life is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1694],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-electronics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}