In 2006, Steve Pitkin suffered a serious heart attack while hiking above Salt Lake City with his daughter. The main artery in Pitkin’s heart was completely blocked, leaving 70% of his left ventricle ...
Meet Cindy Bosco, 55, of Bay City, inventor of the Bosco LVAD Vest for heart patients. The heart pump consists of a controller that weights about eight pounds and there are two batteries. It used to ...
They look like they’d fit into a laptop, but the 14-volt lithium-ion batteries Lewis Ball wears in a modified fishing vest are all that keep him alive. “Unplug them, and my pump’s going to stop,” Ball ...