{"id":7945,"date":"2023-02-02T09:57:36","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T09:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uosm2031\/?p=7945"},"modified":"2023-02-02T09:57:36","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T09:57:36","slug":"a-cool-valve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uosm2031\/2023\/02\/02\/a-cool-valve\/","title":{"rendered":"A cool valve"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When looking at University degrees, I came across Biomedical Engineering which immediately struck my attention as I love the idea that something you have built could potentially improve the life of many people. However, my lack of maths and physics understanding led me to choose a different degree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One particular research that I found particularly interesting was something known as a Sapien transcatheter heart valve, which is a valve that can be introduced to the patient without the need of an open heart surgery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hubpublishing.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/06_Certitude.WhtBG_.03.03_CamDistal_TA.BalloonValveExpanded_F00.01.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The valve is introduced through the femoral artery and the inflation of a balloon allows it to be placed in the correct place in the heart, allowing patients without the ability to undergo complex procedures to obtain a new heart valve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"TAVR: Edwards, Sapien Aortic Valve Deployment\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bOI-jJcEmfc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When looking at University degrees, I came across Biomedical Engineering which immediately struck my attention as I love the idea that something you have built could potentially improve the life of many people. However, my lack of maths and physics understanding led me to choose a different degree. One particular research that I found particularly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5516,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-practice-blogs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uosm2031\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uosm2031\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uosm2031\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uosm2031\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5516"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uosm2031\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uosm2031\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7988,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uosm2031\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7945\/revisions\/7988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uosm2031\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uosm2031\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uosm2031\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}