Scientists Created Cover Which Helps Heart Continue Beating, Prevents Attacks

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Scientists have created an external membrane using a 3-D printer than can keep a heart beating virtually forever.

The thin membrane is elastic, designed to stretch over a heart like a glove, and is outfitted with tiny electrodes that monitor cardiac function – it was first demonstrated as a proof of concept on a rabbit heart.
Researchers at both the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Washington University published the astonishing breakthrough in Nature, and hope it will someday help prevent heart attacks in humans.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2571917/Membrane-heart-pumping-forever-possibly-prevent-heart-attacks.html

Membrane that can keep your heart pumping forever and possibly prevent heart attacks
The membrane has been proven to work on a rabbit heart
Researchers say it should be available for humans in the next 10-15 years
By RYAN GORMAN
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 01:04 EST, 3 March 2014 | UPDATED: 07:39 EST, 3 March 2014

Woman Suffers Heart Attack After Police Use TASER

I attended the presentation by TASER Corporation in Cambridge MA. The City decided against arming city officers with these devices. The corporation stated that it was an alternative to deadly force. But that is not how the TASER is used. It is used when a suspect runs from the police, who are not permitted to shoot at fleeing suspects. It is used when a suspect ignores an officer's orders, not the level allowing deadly force. It is used when the officer does not like what the suspect says or does. And more situations. They may be permitted by the police departments' policies, but that is not the argument used when the police make the decision to allow the use of TASERs by their officers. It becomes an easy way to subdue a suspect whether or not deadly force would otherwise be allowed. TASER makes specious arguments to persuade cities to purchase the weapons. Bernie Kerik was New York City Police Commissioner. He made $6 million in stock options and was on the board of directors of TASER Corporation. This is one more example of officials spending taxpayer money for their own personal benefit. TASER Corporation may have a weapon that is useful when used appropriately, but the widespread use of the weapons on civilians will continue to harm people in an unlawful manner.

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50135527n

Woman suffers heart attack after police taser
November 20, 2012 6:39 AM
BCS News Los Angeles CA
The debate over the impact of tasers -- the electronic control devices
used by police -- has been raised following the release of video
footage of a Calif. woman who suffered a heart attack after being
tased by police. CBS-2 Los Angeles correspondent Randy Paige reports.