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JARVIK 7 ARTIFICIAL HEART Dacron polyester, plastic and aluminum, approximately 445 x 160 mm,
25 October 2022, 14:00 EDT
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JARVIK 7 ARTIFICIAL HEART
Dacron polyester, plastic and aluminum, approximately 445 x 160 mm, consisting of 2 chambers connected by Velcro, one labeled "SI 70 / LEFT" and the other "SI 87 / RIGHT," both labeled "NON CLINICAL USE ONLY," and Left chamber also appended with "DEMO USE ONLY."
Provenance: A gift from Dr. Robert Jarvik to the present owner, Dr. Richard Collins, with a letter of provenance.
"I want to tell you that even though I don't have a heart, I still love you" (Barney Clark, the first person to receive an artificial heart, to his wife when he woke from transplant surgery on December 3rd, 1982).
The first artificial heart transplant was performed on December 2, 1982 by Dr. William Devries at the University of Utah Hospital using a Jarvik 7 artificial heart developed by Dr. Robert Jarvik. The recipient, Dr. Barney Clark, was a Seattle dentist with chronic heart disease who had been given a diagnosis of imminent death. When he was presented with the option of receiving the artificial hearth, Clark was hesitant at first. As a medical professional, he realized the risks and initially decided not to go through with the surgery. He soon after changed his mind and explained to his wife: "I've been kept alive for the last four years through all kinds of medicine and therapies that other people have given their lives to inform me; now, it is my time to pay them back."
The Jarvik 7 was the evolution of the mechanical heart designed by Dr. Robert Jarvik as part of the University of Utah's artificial organs program headed by Willem Johan Kolff. The Jarvik 7 was the first to receive FDA approval to be transplanted into humans. After years of work in the field by Jarvik and many others before him, this was considered a major human achievement at the time—on par with landing humans on the Moon.
Barney Clark went on to survive for 112 days with the Jarvik 7 performing heart duties. While the time was spent in the hospital connected to a 400-pound air compressor that powered the implant, he was able to enjoy his 39th wedding anniversary surrounded by his wife and family. Dr. DeVries described Clark's final day in a 2012 interview for University of Utah Health: "On that 112th day—the entire period in which I had only left the hospital once—I had just checked on Barney and he was up reading the newspaper. An hour later, he was unconscious and his blood pressure had plummeted down to zero. At that time, declaring death was based on one's heart stopping not on weather one was brain dead. His wife was with him, when we agreed to turn off the heart-pump machine. It was over. The easiest thing for Barney to do would have been to go home and die, but he chose not to; he was a pioneer who truly did give his life for something important."
The second artificial heart transplant candidate was Bill Schroeder who managed to live for 620 days with the Jarvik 7. The artificial heart eventually became a way to make the bridge for heart transplant patients to receiving a human donor heart, but it's a major landmark in the history of modern medicine.
Provenance: A gift from Dr. Robert Jarvik to the present owner, Dr. Richard Collins, with a letter of provenance.
"I want to tell you that even though I don't have a heart, I still love you" (Barney Clark, the first person to receive an artificial heart, to his wife when he woke from transplant surgery on December 3rd, 1982).
The first artificial heart transplant was performed on December 2, 1982 by Dr. William Devries at the University of Utah Hospital using a Jarvik 7 artificial heart developed by Dr. Robert Jarvik. The recipient, Dr. Barney Clark, was a Seattle dentist with chronic heart disease who had been given a diagnosis of imminent death. When he was presented with the option of receiving the artificial hearth, Clark was hesitant at first. As a medical professional, he realized the risks and initially decided not to go through with the surgery. He soon after changed his mind and explained to his wife: "I've been kept alive for the last four years through all kinds of medicine and therapies that other people have given their lives to inform me; now, it is my time to pay them back."
The Jarvik 7 was the evolution of the mechanical heart designed by Dr. Robert Jarvik as part of the University of Utah's artificial organs program headed by Willem Johan Kolff. The Jarvik 7 was the first to receive FDA approval to be transplanted into humans. After years of work in the field by Jarvik and many others before him, this was considered a major human achievement at the time—on par with landing humans on the Moon.
Barney Clark went on to survive for 112 days with the Jarvik 7 performing heart duties. While the time was spent in the hospital connected to a 400-pound air compressor that powered the implant, he was able to enjoy his 39th wedding anniversary surrounded by his wife and family. Dr. DeVries described Clark's final day in a 2012 interview for University of Utah Health: "On that 112th day—the entire period in which I had only left the hospital once—I had just checked on Barney and he was up reading the newspaper. An hour later, he was unconscious and his blood pressure had plummeted down to zero. At that time, declaring death was based on one's heart stopping not on weather one was brain dead. His wife was with him, when we agreed to turn off the heart-pump machine. It was over. The easiest thing for Barney to do would have been to go home and die, but he chose not to; he was a pioneer who truly did give his life for something important."
The second artificial heart transplant candidate was Bill Schroeder who managed to live for 620 days with the Jarvik 7. The artificial heart eventually became a way to make the bridge for heart transplant patients to receiving a human donor heart, but it's a major landmark in the history of modern medicine.