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John Gibbon used a heart-lung machine of his own invention for the first time to fix a heart defect
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An artificial heart is used on a living thing for the first time, the dog lived for 90 minutes
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Mr. Winchell patented the first artificial heart in collaboration with Henry J. Heimlich (Inventor of the choking maneuver)
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Jarvik 7 became the first artificial heart implanted in a human, and helped keep Barney Clark alive for 112 days by replacing the two lower chambers of his heart
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The FDA approved of the LVAD, or the Left Ventricular Assist Device, which allows failing hearts to continue functioning
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An Isralean man became the first recipent of the Jarvik 2000, the first artificial heart that can maintain blood flow and generate a pulse
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AbioCor is the first self contained mechanical heart that was successfully implanted in a Jewish Hospital in Kentucky. It is battery powered and the size of a softball
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Craig Lewis was successfully implanted with a fully artificial heart called the BiVACOR, which produced no pulse, and survived for 6 weeks before kidney and liver disease forced them to stop the machine
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With an over 8 hour procedure, the HeartMate III, an earlier no pulse invention, was successfully implanted in a calf, and after the surgery it was able to do things as it normally would
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Carmat, a Paris-based company, designs a new type of artificial heart that instead of pumping blood like a heart beat pushes it through, so the user would have no pulse
