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External Blood Pumps
Charles Lindbergh and Alexis Carrel worked together in an attempt to create a blood pump that could support the human body during heart surgery. It took many years to create a successful model, before they started on a pump that could support removed organs. This idea pushed people to try for a totally artificial heart. -
Artificial Dog Heart
Dr. Vladimir P. Demikhov developed an artificial heart that he transplanted into a dog which lived until days end. He continued with similar experiments on other dogs , most of which lived up to a month after operation. -
Heart lung machine
Dr. John H. GIbbon started an experiment to create a machine that could oxygenate someones blood and send it to the heart to pump it. It proved sucsessful on dogs and rats, but three children died during surgery before he stopped trying it on them. -
Artificial Heart With a Pump
William H. Sewell, a medical student at Yale, sought to create an artificial heart without lung support. The heart had to pump blood itself, but no one in the past had created an artificial heart that pumped itself. His final design proved succsessful and he won the thesis prize at his school. -
Artificial heart transplanted succsessfully into a man
Dr. Denton Cooley and Domingo Liotta worked together to change Liotta's original heart design so it could be used on a human. It was transplanted into a man with a history of heart problems, who lived for a good amount of time before he got an actual heart transplanted and he died of pneumonia -
Dr. Willem Kolff, succsessful permanent hearts
Dr. Robert Jarvik made an artificial heart which a 61 year old man received, and he continued to live on for 112 days. -
AbioCor release
The AbioCor can pump blood from the heart and around the body with a hydrolic pump, but is too large and needs to be charged too often for a patient to leave the hospital. It was develpoed for people who've experienced biventical heart faliure. -
SynCardia 70cc artificial heart approved by FDA
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SynCardia portable freedom driver
SynCardia developed a portable freedom driver for artificial heart transplant patients so they were able to live outside of a hospital and travel with the small duffel bag sized machine. This device is not meant for life long use, rather as a way to live at home while waiting for a human heart transplant. -
Woman receives first 50cc SynCardia total artificial heart
This is a smaller version of the 70 cc total artificial heart, and can be used on smaller people.
