Prosthetic heart
Prosthetic heart
A heart prosthesis. It contains an electric motor that pumps blood smoothly around the body. Users often report feeling tired, but it's better than the alternative.
Base Stats
- Type
- Medical Items – Body Parts
- Flammability
- 70%
Creation
- Required Research
- Prosthetics
- Skill Required
- Crafting 5
- Work To Make
- 15,000 ticks (4.17 mins)
- techHediffsTags
- Simple
- tradeTags
- TechHediff
The Prosthetic heart is a heart replacement with 80% efficiency. It affects Blood pumping and several dependent stats - due to its below-normal part efficiency it negatively affects healthy pawns but may benefit injured or unhealthy ones.
Acquisition
Prosthetic hearts can be crafted on a Machining table. They require 25 steel, 4 components and a crafting skill of 5.
Summary
Prosthetic hearts have an 80% part efficiency, while heart body part has a 100% importance to the Blood Pumping capacity. Thus, installing it results in a 20% loss to Blood Pumping. Installing a prosthetic heart will also instantly cure any artery blockages and prevent heart attacks from any source, including drugs. However the decrease in blood pumping has a number of carry-on effects including a Move Speed reduction of 7.5%, equivalent to a prosthetic leg, and a 4% reduction in Consciousness, Manipulation, Talking, and Eating. Additionally, they require 6% more sleep due to the 94% Rest Rate Multiplier. The reduction in consciousness and manipulation mean than that almost all tasks will be completed slightly slower. Finally, this also results in a 20.3% reduction in an otherwise healthy pawn's market value.
Installing a prosthetic heart in a patient with a healthy natural heart will result in the heart being harvested for later use. Normal organ harvesting penalties apply when harvesting a heart in this way.[Fact Check]
Installation
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Installing the part requires 2,500 ticks (41.67 secs) of work, ?x medicine of ?? quality or better, and a Medical skill of 4.
Removing the part requires ? of work, ?x medicine of ?? quality or better, and a Medical skill of ?.
If the operation fails, the part has a chance[What Chance?] to be destroyed. If the installation surgery fails, there is also a 25% chance that the patient dies. Thus, there is always at least a 0.5% chance of death when installing.
Analysis
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Prosthetic hearts can be important tools to prevent heart attack deaths in the early game, should an otherwise valuable colonist be prone to them. However their stat penalties are significant. Ideally, natural hearts or bionic hearts should be used instead. Bionic hearts especially, as they give a small but significant buff to Moving and Rest Rate Multiplier.
On the plus side, prosthetic hearts provide a fairly cheap (25 steel, 4 components per heart) method of harvesting one of all harvestable body parts. Just remember to harvest the Liver last and that you cannot reclaim the heart from a lifeless corpse. Indeed, using the prosthetic heart to retrieve a natural heart from a prisoner without causing a mood debuff for the prisoners death may be a more viable way to deal with a colonist needing a new heart.
While it does provide a buff to pawns with the Body modder trait, its negative effects on healthy pawns means it should be passed over for other, less detrimental prostheses.
Version history
- 0.19.2009 - Added.