Dodrill GMR Heart
date: label: date made
content: 1952
label: date made
content: ca 1952
notes: label: Description
content: “The Mechanical Heart” also known as the Michigan Heart had the ability to bypass the right and left side of the patient’s heart allowing surgeons a “dry” field on which to work. The Dodrill-GMR heart project was a collaborative effort led by Dr. Forest Dewey Dodrill of Harper Hospital in Detroit, Michigan and General Motors Research Laboratory.
label: Description
content: The Dodrill-GMR Heart was used in the first successful open heart operation July 3, 1952. The patient, a forty-one-year-old male, had a deformed mitral valve which was successfully repaired.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Michigan, Detroit
topic: label: Subject
content: Artificial Organs
label: Subject
content: Cardiology
label: Subject
content: Medicine
label: Subject
content: Surgery
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Artificial Hearts
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Dodrill, Forest D., M.D.. Some Physiologic Aspects of the Artificial Heart Problem
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: General Motors Corporation, Research Laboratories Division
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-06790
label: accession number
content: 203312
label: catalog number
content: M-06790
objectType: label: Object Name
content: heart, mechanical
label: Object Name
content: Heart, Mechanical
label: Object Name
content: artificial heart
label: Other Terms
content: Heart, Mechanical; heart, mechanical; Surgery
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: chromium (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 25 in x 18 in x 15 in; 63.5 cm x 45.72 cm x 38.1 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall, tubing: 1 5/8 in x 14 in x 8 in; 4.1275 cm x 35.56 cm x 20.32 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall, artificial heart: 22 1/2 in x 20 in x 14 in; 57.15 cm x 50.8 cm x 35.56 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 23 in x 19 1/2 in x 13 in; 58.42 cm x 49.53 cm x 33.02 cm