Jarvik-7 Artificial Heart
date: label: date made
content: 1985
label: associated date
content: 1985-08-29
name: label: user
content: Drummond, Michael
label: designer
content: Jarvik, Robert
label: maker
content: Symbion, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: This Jarvik-7 total artificial heart was used in the first authorized bridge to organ transplant operation. A bridge to transplantation is a temporary measure that replacs a failing heart with a mechanical pump while waiting for a human heart for implantation. Jack G. Copeland, M.D, performed the surgery on August 29, 1985 at the University Medical Center, University of Arizona. The patient, 25 year old Michael Drummond, lived with the mechanical pump for nine days until a donor heart could be implanted. Later, Drummond kept the heart in his home before its donation to the Smithsonian.
label: Description
content: Robert Jarvik (b. 1946) graduated from Syracuse University and earned a master’s degree in medical engineering from New York University. Then, at to the University of Utah Medical School, he earned an MD and was influenced by Wilhelm Johan Kolff, a Dutch-born physician who had developed a dialysis machine and was working on artificial organs. The first Jarvik-7 artificial heart was implanted in Barney Clark in 1982.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Utah, Salt Lake City
label: associated place
content: United States: Arizona
topic: label: Subject
content: Cardiology
label: Subject
content: Surgery
label: Subject
content: Health Care
label: Subject
content: Medicine
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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: Copeland, J. G.. First successful bridge to transplantation with the total artificial heart
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: University Medical Center of the University of Arizona
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1987.0474.01
label: catalog number
content: 1987.0474.01
label: accession number
content: 1987.0474
objectType: label: Object Name
content: artificial heart
label: Object Name
content: heart, artificial
label: Other Terms
content: artificial heart; Prostheses
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: polyurethane (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: dacron (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: polycarbonate (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 13.7 cm x 10.1 cm x 9.6 cm; 5 13/32 in x 3 31/32 in x 3 25/32 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/4 in x 6 in x 9 in; 10.795 cm x 15.24 cm x 22.86 cm