Liotta-Cooley Artificial Heart
date: label: date made
content: 1969
name: label: maker
content: Liotta, Domingo
notes: label: Description
content: This is the first total artificial heart implanted in a human body. It was developed by Domingo Liotta and implanted by surgeon Denton Cooley (1920-2016) on April 4, 1969, at St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital in Houston. The recipient, Haskell Karp, lived for sixty-four hours with the artificial heart pumping oxygenated blood through his body until a human heart was available for transplant.
label: Description
content: Although Karp died soon after receiving a real heart, and some criticized the surgery as unethical because it was without formal review by the medical community, the procedure demonstrated the viability of artificial hearts as a bridge to transplant in cardiac patients.
place: label: place made
content: United States: Texas, Houston
topic: label: Subject
content: Cardiology
label: Subject
content: Surgery
label: Subject
content: Cardiology
label: Subject
content: Surgery
label: Subject
content: Health Care
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: Government, Politics, and Reform
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content: National Treasures exhibit
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content: Artificial Hearts
label: Exhibition
content: First Do No Harm
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Cooley, D. A.; Liotta, D.; Hallman, G. L.; Bloodwell, R. D.; Leachman, R. D.; Milam, J. D.. Orthotopic Cardiac Prosthesis for Two-Staged Cardiac Replacement
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Texas Heart Institute
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1978.1002.01
label: accession number
content: 1978.1002
label: catalog number
content: 1978.1002.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: artificial heart
label: Object Name
content: heart, artificial
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: dacron (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: polyurethane (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: silastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall, as stored: 7 1/2 in x 9 in x 6 1/2 in; 19.05 cm x 22.86 cm x 16.51 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 18.7 cm x 22.8 cm x 16.4 cm; 7 3/8 in x 8 31/32 in x 6 15/32 in