Engineering Report – Total Artificial Heart (Keiran & Hamish)

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Assessment Task on Bio-Medical Engineering; Total Artificial Heart
Intro:
Biomedical engineering is the development of artifcial body parts that replicate or imitate damaged or absent body parts. In Australia alone cardiovascular disease
accounted for over 50,000 deaths while Coronary heart disease claimed over 29,000 lives. Only a very few amount of people receive successful heart transplantations, so
the development of a reliable artifcial heart is extremely useful towards society. Throughout this report, various materials that have been used within biomedical industry have been studied in order to gain a deeper knowledge of the specific materials required to create a fully functional artifcial heart. From this
recommendations and conclusions have been drawn from what can be used within the development of totally artifcial hearts.