ATS Medical Sales Sample Kit
date: label: date made
content: ca 1992
name: label: maker
content: ATS Medical
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This black nylon salesman’s kit containing ATS artificial heart valves belonged to the donor Manuel “Manny” Villafaña. The items contained within the kit include: Villafaña’s business cards, a Hemashield® double velour vascular graft model manufactured by MeadoxMedicals Inc., a pivot design model, 3 demonstration valves one of which is a suture/sewing ring, 2 valve inserters (one aortic, one mitral), 2 standard and AP sizers, 3 tissue anulus plates, 2 plastic models of the bileaflet design, one extra end pieces for valve holders, and 2 metal tools called "Reusable Handles" which have flexible heads and screw into part of mitral/aortic holders for implantation during surgery.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Also included are three ATS Medical pamphlets, which include the CE Mark (Commission European) clinical results, ATS Medical Open Pivot™ Valve, and Scientific Presentations. At the time the pamphlets were printed (1995 -1996) ATS valves were not available in the United States.
label: Description (Brief)
content: ATS Medical was founded in 1992 by Manny Villafaña and acquired by Medtronic Inc. in April 2010.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Minnesota, Minneapolis
topic: label: Subject
content: Cardiology
label: Subject
content: Prosthesis
label: Subject
content: Artificial Organs
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Artificial Heart Valves
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Manuel Villafaña
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2015.0031.55.01
label: catalog number
content: 2015.0031.55.01
label: accession number
content: 2015.0031
objectType: label: Object Name
content: cardiology
label: Object Name
content: artificial heart valve sales sample kit
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: nylon (container material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (business cards material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (valve material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (valve material)
label: Measurements
content: case: 8.5 cm x 29.7 cm x 19.5 cm; 3 11/32 in x 11 11/16 in x 7 11/16 in