Jarvik-7 Artificial Heart
date: label: date made
content: about 1985
name: label: maker
content: Symbion, Inc.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This dissected Jarvik-7 Total Artificial Heart (TAH), had been implanted in James Burcham April, 14, 1985 at the Humana Heart Institute International in Louisville, Kentucky. Burcham lived with the device for ten days. The heart pump has a right and left ventricle with four tilting disc valves. Each ventricle contains a flexible diaphragm constructed with multiple layers of polyurethane.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Utah, Salt Lake City
topic: label: Subject
content: Artificial Organs
label: Subject
content: Cardiology
label: Subject
content: Medicine
label: Subject
content: Surgery
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: William C. DeVries, M.D.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2010.0200.02.01
label: accession number
content: 2010.0200
label: catalog number
content: 2010.0200.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: artificial heart
label: Object Name
content: cardiology
label: Object Name
content: artificial heart, dissected
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall, all pieces, as stored: 2 1/2 in x 6 in x 11 7/8 in; 6.35 cm x 15.24 cm x 30.1625 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 cm x 14 cm x 12.5 cm; 4 23/32 in x 5 1/2 in x 4 29/32 in