Thursday 29 December 2016

When was the artificial heart invented?

In 1963, Mr. Winchell patented an artificial heart that he said was a collaboration with Henry J. Heimlich, inventor of the maneuver for choking victims. Mr. Winchell's device was considered the prototype for the one designed by Robert K. Jarvik that was successfully implanted in a human in 1982.

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