Artificial Organs
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Artificial Organs
A new phenomenon in the fields of medicine, ethics, and bioengineering is the making and using artificial organs. An artificial organ is simply put a man-made device that is surgically implanted or integrated into, a human being to replace a loss function, for the purpose of restoring a specific function or a group of related functions so the patient may return to as normal a life as possible. The replaced organ doesn't necessarily have to be related to life support, but often is.
The development of such artificial organs is not something new; scientist, doctors and many other professionals from various backgrounds have played with the idea and attempted to create better artificial organs. According to (Bionics, 2010) the very first artificial organ attempt was in the year 1885 by M. Von Frey and M. Gruber. These men built and used the first artificial heart-lung apparatus for organ perfusion studies. Perfusion is the method of trying to preserve the organ for transplant.
Frey and Gruber were not the last to make an organ and put it to use. Eric Sableman PhD a neurosurgery bioengineer (Sableman) states that many artificial organs have been created, including a bladder, heart, kidney(dialysis), lung (well not really, he was talking about the iron lung, personally in my opinion that’s not an artificial organ),and joints of various body parts like a knee replacement. Dr. Sableman also spoke about the many benefits of a person having an artificial organ or body part implanted. The one, only and best reason: extension of life. He also noted that with each artificial organ implant there are many circumstances which promote new research, ideas, and solutions. Some of the other benefits are; life support to prevent imminent death while awaiting a transplant (artificial heart). Dramatic improvement of the patient's ability for self care (artificial limb). Improvement of the patient's ability to interact socially (cochlear implant) Cosmetic surgery...
A new phenomenon in the fields of medicine, ethics, and bioengineering is the making and using artificial organs. An artificial organ is simply put a man-made device that is surgically implanted or integrated into, a human being to replace a loss function, for the purpose of restoring a specific function or a group of related functions so the patient may return to as normal a life as possible. The replaced organ doesn't necessarily have to be related to life support, but often is.
The development of such artificial organs is not something new; scientist, doctors and many other professionals from various backgrounds have played with the idea and attempted to create better artificial organs. According to (Bionics, 2010) the very first artificial organ attempt was in the year 1885 by M. Von Frey and M. Gruber. These men built and used the first artificial heart-lung apparatus for organ perfusion studies. Perfusion is the method of trying to preserve the organ for transplant.
Frey and Gruber were not the last to make an organ and put it to use. Eric Sableman PhD a neurosurgery bioengineer (Sableman) states that many artificial organs have been created, including a bladder, heart, kidney(dialysis), lung (well not really, he was talking about the iron lung, personally in my opinion that’s not an artificial organ),and joints of various body parts like a knee replacement. Dr. Sableman also spoke about the many benefits of a person having an artificial organ or body part implanted. The one, only and best reason: extension of life. He also noted that with each artificial organ implant there are many circumstances which promote new research, ideas, and solutions. Some of the other benefits are; life support to prevent imminent death while awaiting a transplant (artificial heart). Dramatic improvement of the patient's ability for self care (artificial limb). Improvement of the patient's ability to interact socially (cochlear implant) Cosmetic surgery...