syringe in the midst of pulling vcr posts, page-16

not unsavable, unsavable by vcr. Good story, great jockey bad horse. Heard it a million times.
Can't escape the reality that the product is marketed as a bridge to transplant or long term destination.

For 50% of people trying the device it was not so and the survival time was abysmal.

These people have bad hearts they need a transplant or something more than a non-pulsatile left ventricle assist.

Who knows whether or not they would have lived longer or in greater comfort with another device, assist system or no surgical intervention at all. They were not saved, that's all.

They were not guinea pigs but people. Their hopes for a Ventracor solution ended up in the cemetery.