The N100PC Blood Pump and Energy Convertor
date: label: date made
content: about 2000
name: label: maker
content: Novacor Medical Corporation
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: The N100PC is an implantable heart pump and drive system with a white outer cover and a precutanious lead. This device was first tested clinically in 1993, and remained in use until 2011. While researchers worked to develope a total artificial heart as a bridge to transplant several groups of scientists and engineers worked on smaller devices called Ventricular Assist Device or "VAD", a mechanical pump used to assist the blood output of the diseased heart. Unlike a total artificial heart, the patient’s natiral heart is left in place.
label: Description (Brief)
content: In select cases the VAD can be used as a long term recovery solution to chronic heart failure known as destination therapy. Groups working on both the artificial heart and VAD's encountered many of the same problems, particularly material compatibility to avoid blood clotting. In 1998, the Novacor LVAS was given FDA approval as a bridge to transplant.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: California, Berkeley
label: Associated Place
content: United States: California, Oakland
topic: label: Subject
content: Medicine
label: Subject
content: Cardiology
label: Subject
content: Health Care
label: Subject
content: Artificial Organs
label: Subject
content: Surgery
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of World Heart Corporation
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2011.0197.07
label: accession number
content: 2011.0197
label: catalog number
content: 2011.0197.07
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Blood Pump and Energy Convertor
label: Object Name
content: cardiology
label: Object Name
content: blood pump and energy convertor
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall, pump in case: 3 3/4 in x 10 1/8 in x 10 1/8 in; 9.525 cm x 25.7175 cm x 25.7175 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall, case with hose: 2 in x 8 1/4 in x 3 1/2 in; 5.08 cm x 20.955 cm x 8.89 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall, hose, shortest: 1 3/8 in x 2 5/8 in x 2 5/8 in; 3.4925 cm x 6.6675 cm x 6.6675 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall, hose, medium: 1 1/2 in x 9 3/8 in x 1 1/2 in; 3.81 cm x 23.8125 cm x 3.81 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall, hose, longest: 1 1/2 in x 16 3/4 in; 3.81 cm x 42.545 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 17.5 cm x 14 cm x 6.5 cm; 6 7/8 in x 5 1/2 in x 2 9/16 in