AbioCor Total Artificial Heart
date: label: date made
content: ca 2001
name: label: patient
content: Tools, Robert L.
label: cardiac surgeon
content: Gray, Laman
label: cardiac surgeon
content: Dowling, Robert
label: maker
content: ABIOMED, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: The AbioCor Total Artificial Heart is the first electro-hydraulic artificial heart implanted in a human. Approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration for clinical trials, this AbioCor artificial heart was implanted in Robert Tools by cardiac surgeons Laman A. Gray Jr. and Robert D. Dowling on July 2, 2001, at Jewish Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky. The historic operation marked the first time an artificial heart was used as a permanent replacement for a human heart since the air-powered Jarvik-7 artificial heart more than fifteen years before.
label: Description
content: The AbioCor is a two-chamber pump designed to perform like a natural human heart. It is powered by batteries, and pumps more than 2.5 gallons of blood a minute to the lungs and then to the rest of the body.
label: Description
content: Tools, who suffered from irreversible congestive heart failure, chose to have his diseased heart removed and replaced with the plastic and titanium pump. He lived for five months, well beyond the clinical trials goal of sixty days.
label: Description
content: The development of the AbioCor involved a team of engineers, scientists, and physicians from across the United States. Completely contained within the body, no tubes protrude through the skin, nor is the patient tethered to a noisy bedside console, as with air-powered hearts. Instead the heart is powered by rechargeable batteries and microcomputer technology that regulates the heartbeat according to the patient's activities.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Danvers
topic: label: Subject
content: Surgery
label: Subject
content: Cardiology
label: Subject
content: Surgery
label: Subject
content: Artificial Organs
label: related event
content: Implantation of Total Artificial heart
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Science & Mathematics
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content: Artificial Hearts
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Renee C. Fox and Judith P. Swazey with the asistance of Judith C. Watkins. Spare Parts
label: Related Publication
content: Dale Greer. University of Louisville Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: ABIOMED Inc.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2003.0166.01.1
label: accession number
content: 2003.0166
label: catalog number
content: 2003.0166.01.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: artificial heart
label: Object Name
content: artificial heart
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: titanium (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11.8 cm x 9.2 cm x 15 cm; 4 21/32 in x 3 5/8 in x 5 29/32 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/8 in x 5 1/2 in x 4 7/8 in; 10.4775 cm x 13.97 cm x 12.3825 cm