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From the article it looks like it does not. Indeed it is hard to imagine a mechanism that could safely accommodate such a feature. maybe an external control knob?


Oxygen saturation sensor?


One lung could be replaced with an artificial one which would work together with the artificial heart to regulate oxygen autonomously. The artificial lung could have an oxygen storage so one could hold the breath for hours. One step closer to cyborgs.


Congratulations on supplementing one impossible thing we can't do yet with three more.

There are very good reasons these artificial hearts are strictly temporary while waiting for a donor.




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