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Why did we stop doing this?
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Honestly, the 'Talc and Sulphates' convention sounds fun to crash at least once in your life. It's only when a topic is old-hat that it becomes boring.... I've always enjoyed listening to people who really know their shit talk about topics they like.
'Implantable Medical Devices' is either AWESOME or AWFUL depending on the kind/purpose of the device. Excruciating is definitely on the awful side, though, so pass on that one.
Hahaha, like the Ventricular Assist Devices.
They bore a one-inch diameter hole in the heart, suture a BLDC impeller motor (VAD) on, then cut into the aorta or whatever, suture fancy material stuff to a tube that then redirects the blood flow through the motor. And a fancy cable that exits your abdomen and connects to the electronics.
It was the single most disturbing thing I've ever had the displeasure of working with. I really wish I didn't know how it worked.
And down the rabbit hole we go!
I found stuff about LVAD, but somehow RVAD seems to be But maybe that's what gets your heart racing....
Can't figure out inline images in lemmy. This should be the joke: https://lemmy.myserv.one/pictrs/image/0990c4e3-e575-4824-a018-0ce119eb3ad4.jxl
Yep, I am sick unto the death over talc and talc derivatives. It's all sunshine and lollipops for the first few years, but it gets old.
Anyway, these medical devices were sort of like spinal implants, or things that could mitigate damage from a bad alligator bite if one got ahold of a person's ankle. Bone replacements, mostly. The photos on the posters were pretty unpleasantly graphic, but they all basically looked like good solutions to very unfortunate problems.