Rank: Advanced Member
Joined: 3/7/2009 Posts: 26,623 Neurons: 79,047 Location: Inside Farlex computers
|
Barney Clark Receives World's First Permanent Artificial Heart (1982)In the late 1940s, doctors at the Yale School of Medicine used parts from an Erector Set to build the first artificial heart pump. The device bypassed the heart of a dog for more than an hour. However, an artificial heart would not be implanted in a human until decades later. Barney Clark, a Seattle dentist with congestive heart failure, was the first recipient. Though the surgery was successful, Clark never recovered enough to leave the hospital and died of complications after how long? More...
|
 Rank: Advanced Member
Joined: 1/28/2015 Posts: 5,319 Neurons: 2,918,786 Location: Kolkata, Bengal, India
|
This Day in History Barney Clark Receives World's First Permanent Artificial Heart (1982) In the late 1940s, doctors at the Yale School of Medicine used parts from an Erector Set to build the first artificial heart pump. The device bypassed the heart of a dog for more than an hour. However, an artificial heart would not be implanted in a human until decades later. Barney Clark, a Seattle dentist with congestive heart failure, was the first recipient.
|
 Rank: Advanced Member
Joined: 3/27/2014 Posts: 2,266 Neurons: 1,341,636 Location: Tbilisi, T'bilisi, Georgia
|
I remember this widely publicized case (as well as the first heart transplant conducted in South Africa back in 1960s).
|