Dodrill GMR Heart

Dodrill-GMR Artificial Heart
Description:

“The Mechanical Heart” also known as the Michigan Heart had the ability to bypass the right and left side of the patient’s heart allowing surgeons a “dry” field on which to work. The Dodrill-GMR heart project was a collaborative effort led by Dr. Forest Dewey Dodrill of Harper Hospital in Detroit, Michigan and General Motors Research Laboratory.

The Dodrill-GMR Heart was used in the first successful open heart operation July 3, 1952. The patient, a forty-one year old male, had a deformed mitral valve which was successfully repaired

Date Made: 1952ca 1952

Location: Currently not on view

Place Made: United States: Michigan, Detroit

Subject: Artificial OrgansCardiologyMedicineSurgery

Subject:

See more items in: Medicine and Science: Medicine, Health & Medicine, Artificial Hearts

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Related Publication: Dodrill, Forest D., M.D.. Some Physiologic Aspects of the Artificial Heart Problem

Credit Line: General Motors Corporation, Research Laboratories Division

Data Source: National Museum of American History

Id Number: MG.M-06790Accession Number: 203312Catalog Number: M-06790

Object Name: heart, mechanicalHeart, Mechanicalartificial heartOther Terms: Heart, Mechanical; heart, mechanical; Surgery

Physical Description: metal (overall material)chromium (overall material)rubber (overall material)glass (overall material)Measurements: overall: 25 in x 18 in x 15 in; 63.5 cm x 45.72 cm x 38.1 cmoverall, tubing: 1 5/8 in x 14 in x 8 in; 4.1275 cm x 35.56 cm x 20.32 cmoverall, artificial heart: 22 1/2 in x 20 in x 14 in; 57.15 cm x 50.8 cm x 35.56 cmoverall: 23 in x 19 1/2 in x 13 in; 58.42 cm x 49.53 cm x 33.02 cm

Metadata Usage: CC0

Guid: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a8-8737-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record Id: nmah_998420

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