# Electric Heart

Machines today can circulate blood through the human body, temporarily extending the lives of those with serious heart ailments. Nova examines the forefront of medical engineering as three separate teams of doctors race to perfect permanent electric hearts: small, implantable pumps that can assist or even replace the hearts of dying patients.

- Kind: TV
- Year: 1999
- By: TV6 (Firm), WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.), British Broadcasting Corporation., WGBH Video (Firm)
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/ElectricHeart)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Adult profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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