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Adcorpus develops products and technologies for active implantable medical devices, supporting companies from early design through to commercialization. Through its consulting and engineering services, the company helps clients navigate technical and regulatory requirements efficiently.
Adcorpus focuses on delivering practical, reliable solutions to accelerate development timelines and bring medical device innovations to market.
Hear what SynCardia says about Heart Hackathon
“We believe that a fully implantable and permanent Total Artificial Heart (p-TAH) is an achievable goal, but it will need some of the world’s best engineers and clinicians to bring their passion to the challenge.”
"This competition is one way to inspire a new wave of innovators and generate fresh excitement around the world as we work with cardiologists, surgeons, and other medical professionals to save more lives, one heart at a time.”
Do pneumatic total artificial hearts have a future in a market where the more efficient continuous flow total artificial hearts are emerging?
“Efficiency is not the entire story - we need to have our patients survive long term and currently the FDA-approved application for the pneumatic artificial heart acts as a bridge to a subsequent transplant.”
Steve Langford, VP Clinical Support
What are some challenges to creating an artificial heart that works as well as a transplant?
“The pressure differential between the input to the artificial heart and the output to the human physiology is very important. They are two very different pressures and those all key into the end result of how it is going to affect the brain, the kidney, the liver and the digestive systems. All major systems need to have the appropriate and proper flow and pressures to be able to function as they do for a healthy person.”
Steve Langford, VP Clinical Support
