One of Santa’s favorite elf received a Berlin Heart, a ventricular assist device (VAD) that acts as an external heart pump attached by tubes, which sustains a child whose heart may be too weak to work on its own. Of course, this version was shrunk down to elf size.
The youngest of five kids in the Bingham family, 8-year-old Gage is the third of his siblings to suffer from a life-threatening heart failure condition known as dilated cardiomyopathy.
For a child awaiting a heart transplant, the Berlin Heart offers a bridge to life. Packard Children’s helped bring this innovative device to pediatric patients in the United States, and achieved some of the early milestones for the most vulnerable patients.
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