Life on Credit
Artificial heart systems are doctors’ answer to a serious problem: one of three patients with a heart disease dies, due to a shortage of donor hearts. Physicians try to solve this problem by bridging the period before a transplant with high-tech-pump-systems or a long-term replacement.
The documentary follows the fate of patients with the latest artificial heart systems and goes back to the very beginning of this fascinating medical technology. Special highlight: exceptional researchers like Willem Kolff und Michael DeBakey tell about their heart experiments.