The First Artificial Heart

February 14th, 2012 | Robot

The first artificial heart was implanted by surgeon Denton Cooley on April 4, 1969, at St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital in Houston, TX.  The recipient, Haskell Karp, lived for nearly 3 days with the artificial heart until a real human heart was available for transplant.
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The heart is not on display at the National Museum of American History, but Alexis Madrigal, from The Atlantic, gained access the storage closet shown below to get a closer look and snap the photos below.  The heart sits inconspicuously above the original capillary kidney.
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The heart really does look like a World War I era gas mask, but it got the job done, and it proved that artificial hearts could be used successfully as a bridge to heart transplant.

The picture shown below is a top-view showing the four major valves: aortic, pulmonary, mitral, and tricuspid.
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That day in Houston will no doubt be a pivotal moment in our history toward becoming cyborgs.

Read more about Madrigal’s visit here, and more about artificial hearts here.

Happy Valentine’s Day!

-RSB

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