# Life without a pulse
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/life-without-a-pulse/21756
**Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic
**Created:** [December 16, 2006, 4:35pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/life-without-a-pulse/21756 "2006-12-16T16:35:36Z")
**Posts on this page:** 14
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### Author:  [@Bacon](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Bacon)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2006, 4:35pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/life-without-a-pulse/21756/1 "2006-12-16T16:35:36Z")
> **[News24 | South Africa's leading source of breaking news, opinion and insight](https://www.news24.com/)**
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Super creepy, but yet kind of cool. Definatly an interesting concept though from a medical standpoint.
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### Author:  [@ryanmcell](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ryanmcell)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2006, 4:49pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/life-without-a-pulse/21756/2 "2006-12-16T16:49:59Z")
wow that is really cool. but no measureable blood pressure… that seems kinda weird and unsafe.
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### Author:  [@jeeves744](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/jeeves744)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2006, 5:02pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/life-without-a-pulse/21756/3 "2006-12-16T17:02:50Z")
cool that it works, but like the article says it would suck if he got in an accident and they went to take his pulse and couldnt find one. IF that was me, i think i would seriously get a tattoo on my chest that says “i have a mechanical heart so i do not have a pulse, do not think my heart stopped”
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### Author:  [@ly555is](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ly555is)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2006, 5:54pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/life-without-a-pulse/21756/4 "2006-12-16T17:54:51Z")
> [@ryanmcell](#):
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> wow that is really cool. but no measureable blood pressure… that seems kinda weird and unsafe.
it seems mind-blowingly atypical and definitely weird, but since they said that a transplant wasn’t in the cards, and it works… i don’t know where you get ‘unsafe’ from. it’s certainly keeping him alive
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### Author:  [@Phil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Phil)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2006, 8:24pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/life-without-a-pulse/21756/5 "2006-12-16T20:24:51Z")
He’ll probably go crazy.
Imagine it being late at night, in your bed. Utterly, dead quiet. Could you sleep?
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### Author:  [@HotRodKid](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/HotRodKid)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2006, 8:29pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/life-without-a-pulse/21756/6 "2006-12-16T20:29:26Z")
> [@jeeves744](#):
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> cool that it works, but like the article says it would suck if he got in an accident and they went to take his pulse and couldnt find one.
would make for great pranks tho … fake your death, have people find your “body” and check your pulse … then when they go call 911 jump up, moan like a zombie and chase them away
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### Author:  [@Justin](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Justin)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2006, 8:29pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/life-without-a-pulse/21756/7 "2006-12-16T20:29:54Z")
Heartless bastard, wonder if it’s made by Rolex?
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### Author:  [@Evil\_Stang](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Evil_Stang)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2006, 9:02pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/life-without-a-pulse/21756/8 "2006-12-16T21:02:23Z")
pretty cool, but i can forsee other problems if his real heart is just sitting there lifeless.
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### Author:  [@Nikuk](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Nikuk)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2006, 7:25am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/life-without-a-pulse/21756/9 "2006-12-17T07:25:56Z")
def. wierd. No real damage though, so long as the pump works there will continue to be oxygenated blood moving about. :shrug:
> [@Article](#):
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> A spokesperson for the mechanical heart maker Thoratec said he had not heard of a similar occurrence with some 400 patients who received the implants, about the size of a standard D flashlight battery, in Europe or the United States.
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> “Everyone who has received one of these has some level of heart muscle contractions,” he told AFP.
400 patients, and he’s the ONLY one with zero contractions.
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### Author:  [@ryanmcell](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ryanmcell)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2006, 7:42am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/life-without-a-pulse/21756/10 "2006-12-17T07:42:43Z")
> [@ghettostyleTA](#):
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> it seems mind-blowingly atypical and definitely weird, but since they said that a transplant wasn’t in the cards, and it works… i don’t know where you get ‘unsafe’ from. it’s certainly keeping him alive
see the post above yours
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### Author:  [@StrokedZ28](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/StrokedZ28)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2006, 8:25am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/life-without-a-pulse/21756/11 "2006-12-17T08:25:35Z")
what happens if the guy was working out or playing a sport. Does the mechanical heart increase blood flow?
I know he 65 but still.
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### Author:  [@Nikuk](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Nikuk)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2006, 8:41am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/life-without-a-pulse/21756/12 "2006-12-17T08:41:23Z")
viagra?
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### Author:  [@FBodyMadnezz](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/FBodyMadnezz)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2006, 8:44am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/life-without-a-pulse/21756/13 "2006-12-17T08:44:58Z")
> [@HotRodKid](#):
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> would make for great pranks tho … fake your death, have people find your “body” and check your pulse … then when they go call 911 jump up, moan like a zombie and chase them away
lol. thatd be a terrible joke to play on someone funny as it may be.
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### Author:  [@Mrs\_Karus](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Mrs_Karus)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2006, 8:49am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/life-without-a-pulse/21756/14 "2006-12-17T08:49:47Z")
that’s pretty sweet. i’d play dead all the time.