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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.
- 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
- 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
- National Museum of American History
- subject
- Cardiology
- Surgery
- Health Care
- Medicine
- Record ID
- nmah_1147093
