Object Details
- Drummond, Michael
- designer
- Jarvik, Robert
- Symbion, Inc.
- Description
- 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.
- 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.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- University Medical Center of the University of Arizona
- 1985
- associated date
- 1985-08-29
- ID Number
- 1987.0474.01
- catalog number
- 1987.0474.01
- accession number
- 1987.0474
- Object Name
- artificial heart
- heart, artificial
- Other Terms
- artificial heart; Prostheses
- Physical Description
- polyurethane (overall material)
- dacron (overall material)
- polycarbonate (overall material)
- Measurements
- 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
- overall: 4 1/4 in x 6 in x 9 in; 10.795 cm x 15.24 cm x 22.86 cm
- place made
- United States: Utah, Salt Lake City
- associated place
- United States: Arizona
- Related Publication
- Copeland, J. G.. First successful bridge to transplantation with the total artificial heart
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Health & Medicine
- Artificial Hearts
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Cardiology
- Surgery
- Health Care
- Medicine
- Record ID
- nmah_1147093
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a9-b5c6-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
