Doctor Christiaan Barnard, the famous heart surgeon who performed the first
successful human heart transplant, is commemorated in the local museum which houses a display of awards presented to him, as well as a replica of the original heart transplant theatre.
It was, after all, in the immediate aftermath of the first
successful human heart transplant that the medical profession recognized the need to establish criteria to pronounce «brain death,» to be used in certain cases in place of traditional «cardiorespiratory» criteria for death.
Not exact matches
As Tim Keller has said, «The
human heart takes good things like a
successful career, love, material possessions, even family, and turns them into ultimate things.
And as Chris, our
human resources contact at this agricultural research client, says, «The better candidates all have this passion; it is what lies at the
heart of 99 % of our
successful hires.»
The research, published online on April 18 in the journal Lab on a Chip, describes the
successful recording of both electrical signals and cellular beating from normal
human heart cells grown on a multi-electrode array developed at the Lab.
The «
heart - on - a-chip,» which builds off previous
successful iCHIP research on the peripheral and central nervous systems, involves the use of
human cardiac cells cultured for up to nine days on the engineered chip.