Jarvik 2000 FlowMaker
name: label: inventor
content: Jarvik, Robert
label: maker
content: Jarvik Heart Inc.
label: maker
content: Jarvik Heart Inc.
label: maker
content: Jarvik Heart Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: The Jarvik 2000 FlowMaker is a heart pump designed to assist a weakened heart circulate blood the body. The device has several components which includes the internal battery-powered axial-flow pump made from titanium, the external controller, battery pack, cabels and connectors. In 2005, the Jarvik 2000 was approved for clinical trials by the United States Food and Drug Administration as a bridge to transplant, buying time for patients waiting a donor heart for transplantation.
label: Description
content: In Europe the Jarvik 2000 has been successfully used for permanent lifetime circulatory support. Peter Houghton, 69 of Birmingham, England is the longest surviving patient living the diminutive heart pump. Houghton's miniature pump was surgically implanted seven years ago.
label: Description
content: Dr. Robert Jarvik has been inventing medical devices since he was in highschool. He became a household name in 1982, when the artificial heart that bears his name, the Jarvik-7 was implanted in dentist Barney Clark. The Jarvik-7 was a total artificial heart that replaced the patient's diseased natural heart. December 2, 2007 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of this historic operation.
label: Description
content: The acquisition of the Jarvik 2000 represents the an evolution in Jarvik's philosophy of severe cardiac care. Twenty-five years ago Barney Clark was destined to live the remainder of his life tethered to an enormous console supplying energy to keep his artificial heart pumping. today miniaturization permits patients like Houghton a better quality of life away from the hospital.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Robert Jarvik, MD
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2006.0234.01
label: accession number
content: 2006.0234
label: catalog number
content: 2006.0234.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Left Ventricular Assist Device
label: Object Name
content: Left Ventricular Assist Device
label: Object Name
content: cardiology
label: Object Name
content: left ventricular assist device
label: Object Name
content: cardiology
label: Object Name
content: left ventricular assist device, battery and battery cable
label: Object Name
content: Controller and Cable
label: Object Name
content: left ventricular assist device, controller and cable
label: Object Name
content: Battery and Battery Cable
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall, battery: 2 in x 6 in x 3 3/4 in; 5.08 cm x 15.24 cm x 9.525 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall, controller: 1 3/4 in x 8 in x 3 1/8 in; 4.445 cm x 20.32 cm x 7.9375 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/2 in x 5 3/4 in x 7 in; 3.81 cm x 14.605 cm x 17.78 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5.7 cm x 2.7 cm; 2 1/4 in x 1 1/16 in