[Jarvik 7] Dr. Jack G. Copeland implanted this Jarvik-7 heart in Michael Drummond on August 29, 1985. Drummond lived with the Jarvik-7 for a week before an organ transplant. It was the first authorized use of an artificial heart as a bridge to organ transplantation.

Dr. Robert K. Jarvik had developed the heart during the late 1970s, working with many other researchers. It consists of two ventricles (the heart's lower chambers) with air chambers and six titanium valves. It attaches to the patient's natural auricles (the heart's upper chambers).

Courtesy of the National Museum of American History, gift of the University Medical Center of the University of Arizona, 1987.

Jarvik 7 Artificial Heart, late 1970s

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