Nasa Health and Medicine
By: Abbie & Dixie
How does Nasa keep hearts pumping?
Nasa keeps hearts pumping by implanting a device in the heart called LaRC - SI. The device located into the hearts bridge on the left side to keep the heart pumping and the vessels moving.
information found at: https://spinoff.nasa.gov/pdf/HM_bro_web.pdf
How does Health and Medicine help us today from Nasa?
Medicine helps us by if we are sick then Nasa provides medicine for us to get well. They also help us by when we stop breathing then they created the tools to help this from preventing. Nasa made this because this helps people from dying of a heart attack or something else that is health related.
Facts for Medicine and Health
How did NASA make a heart device?
A tube and a wire with electric wires put together makes a Implantable Devices.NASA used it by if one of the crew members heart starts doing wrong things they cut next to the heart and makes a bridge to the heart to transport.
How do we use the Heart Devices today?
We use it on people who have heart problems and implant it into there heart to make it start up to live again.People go to heart doctors and prepare for surgery for this tubed device.
How does it help us today?
It saves peoples lives, and can possibly harm people by the doctors implanting the device into the heart wrong. It can also cause death to other people who have heart troubles.
Why did NASA make the heart device?
They made this because if your heart stopped or something went wrong with the heart they can cut next to the heart and implant the device through the bridge.
How can the device help us?
The device can help us in many ways by saving lives of others pumping our hearts to make them come to life again. This device has shown others how we can live with our official equipment. This device can cause sudden death if it moves out of its place and hits the wrong vessels.
How can we make this device even better?
We could put o camera on the heart device so the doctors can see what is happening to the hearts vessels. This device also can tell the blood sugar, or if the heart gets to much blood and a needle can pop it so they can not die.