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Article: World's First 4-lb Discharge Driver For Powering CardioWest Artificial Heart Unveiled at ISHLT in Boston.
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- Business Wire
- Article date:
- April 9, 2008
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BOSTON -- On April 9-12, SynCardia Systems, Inc., manufacturer of the CardioWest[TM] temporary Total Artificial Heart (TAH-t), is unveiling the prototype of its new four-pound Companion II Driver, the next generation in its Companion Driver System series, at the 28th annual meeting of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT).
"Weighing only four pounds, the Companion II is intended to be the smallest pneumatic driver for the artificial heart in the world," said SynCardia President and CEO Rodger Ford. "You'll never notice patients with the Companion II because it is designed to disappear into a fanny pack."
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