Datascope System 83
date: label: Date made
content: 1983
name: label: maker
content: Datascope
notes: label: Description
content: The Datascope System 83 is an intra aortic balloon pump.
label: Description
content: Lawrence Saper (b. 1928) began building his first medical device, a cardiac monitor intended for use by anesthesiologists, in 1964. That same year he founded Datascope Corporation in Paramus, N.J., to make patient monitors and other medical equipment. The firm went public in 1972.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Mobile heart care: A pulsing industry,” Newsday (Feb. 13, 1973), p. 30A.
label: Description
content: Richard F. Hubbard and Jeffrey L. Rodengen, Innovation is the Best Medicine: The Extraordinary Story of Datascope (2004).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Jersey, Paramus
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Datascope Corporation through Karen N. Graham
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1992.0462.01
label: catalog number
content: 1992.0462.01
label: accession number
content: 1992.0462
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Intra Aortic Balloon Pump
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ivory (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: black (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: blue (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: red (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 147.5 cm x 67 cm x 58 cm; 58 1/16 in x 26 3/8 in x 22 13/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 66 in x 30 in x 33 in; 167.64 cm x 76.2 cm x 83.82 cm