When and where was the first artificial heart successfully implanted?
In December 1982, at the University of Utah, in the US , a Seattle dentist Barney Clark became the first human to receive a permanent artificial heart, a device known as Jarvik-7.
Jarvik-7 was made of plastic and metal and intended for permanent implantation in a human being.
The engineered organ comprised two plastic pumps powered by compressed air, which required the patient to be hooked up at all times to a rolling console the size and weight of a refrigerator. It could pump blood through the body at 40 to 120 pulses per minute, but it replaced the telltale heartbeat with a soft clicking sound followed by a whoosh.
The artificial heart was designed by a team consisting of Robert Jarvik (whose name the device received), William DeVries , who performed the operation, and Willem Johan Kolff.
The patient lived for another 112 days on the mechanical organ.
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