Article: Rush University Medical Center Launches Certification Training for CardioWest Total Artificial Heart

Article: Australia's Largest Transplant Hospital to Begin Certification Training to Become Asia-Pacific Regional Training Center for CardioWest Artificial Heart.
Heart Disease Weekly;  August 17, 2008 ;     444 words ......the first phase of certification training for the CardioWest(TM) temporary Total Artificial Heart (TAH-t) (see also...the first phase of certification training. Since performing...for the CardioWest artificial heart. Dr. Copeland will...for the CardioWest ...

Article: Father of World's Only FDA & CE Approved Total Artificial Heart Dies at 97.(Obituary)
Blood Weekly;  March 5, 2009 ;     474 words ......decades of work that led to the Jarvik 7 artificial heart (see also SynCardia Systems, Inc.). oThe modern version of Dr. KolffEs artificial heart, the CardioWestO temporary Total Artificial Heart, is the result of 60 years of development...

Article: Artificial heart: the debate goes on.
Science News;  February 22, 1986 ;     462 words ...Artificial heart: The debate goes on Earlier this month, artificial...including one in a woman who received a second artificial heart after a transplant failed. Is the artificial heart a valuable new device that can save the lives...

Article: LDS Hospital Starts Certification Program for CardioWest Temporary Total Artificial Heart
Wireless News;  July 18, 2007 ;     339 words ......Hospital Starts Certification Program for CardioWest...Temporary Total Artificial Heart WIRELESS NEWS...Temporary Total Artificial Heart (C)2007 10Meters...first phase of certification training to implant the...temporary Total Artificial Heart (TAH-t). In ...

Article: ARTIFICIAL HEART FOCUS IS SHIFTED
The Boston Globe;  May 14, 1988 ;     700+ words ......solidly committed to the dream of an artificial heart, and is confident a recent shift in...support, the NIH was abandoning the artificial heart. The only five human recipients of...Research funds slated for the total artificial heart will go instead to a device to replace...

Article: Patient receives wireless artificial heart: ; First device only expected to extend life by a month
Charleston Gazette;  July 4, 2001 ;     693 words ......received the world's first self-contained artificial heart - a battery- powered device the size...and doctors said they expect the artificial heart to extend the person's life by only...potentially a major step forward in artificial heart development," said Dr. David Faxon...

Article: ABIOMED GETS OK TO TEST AN IMPLANTABLE ARTIFICIAL HEART
The Boston Globe;  January 31, 2001 ;     387 words ......permission to begin testing an implantable artificial heart, the first time in almost two decades...pump. Two decades ago, the Jarvik-7 artificial heart riveted the nation, as the heart of...device. He died after 112 days and artificial heart researchers went back to the drawing...

Article: CardioWest Artificial Heart Approved for Highest Reimbursement in CMS History.
Blood Weekly;  August 21, 2008 ;     499 words ......reimburse the CardioWest temporary Total Artificial Heart (TAH-t) through the highest paying...CMS also approved the CardioWest artificial heart for new technology add-on payments...Medicare reimbursement for the CardioWest artificial heart when implanted as part of an FDA study...

Article: Analysis: Doctors implant first fully self-contained artificial heart into unidentified patient on Monday
NPR Morning Edition;  July 4, 2001 ;     593 words ......implant first fully self-contained artificial heart into unidentified patient on Monday...entirely within the body. If this new artificial heart works, it will raise some difficult...reports. RICHARD KNOX reporting: If the artificial heart is the equivalent of a moon shot...

Article: FDA Advisors to Weigh Artificial Heart
AP Online;  March 17, 2004 ;     608 words ......03-17-2004 Dateline: WASHINGTON A temporary artificial heart that promises to help keep certain...enough to sell. The CardioWest Total Artificial Heart is essentially the same device that...the first recipient of a permanent artificial heart, then called the Jarvik-7. He lived...

Article: FDA Advisers Consider Artificial Heart
AP Online;  March 17, 2004 ;     608 words ......03-17-2004 Dateline: WASHINGTON A temporary artificial heart that promises to help keep certain...enough to sell. The CardioWest Total Artificial Heart is essentially the same device that...the first recipient of a permanent artificial heart, then called the Jarvik-7. He lived...

Article: Scientists Look Beyond the Artificial Heart; Devices to Aid Damaged Organs Are on the Way
The Washington Post;  January 16, 1990 ;     700+ words ......officially stopped further use of the artificial heart last week, the research spotlight...assist device, or LVAD. As half an artificial heart, it takes over for the left ventricle...devices in the same way that the total artificial heart was attached to a power station outside...

Article: NEW ARTIFICIAL HEART AWAITING RECIPIENTS PATIENTS SKEPTICAL ABOUT NEW DEVICE.(NEWS)
The Kentucky Post (Covington, KY);  March 27, 2001 ;     379 words ......ready to install a fully implantable artificial heart, but some heart patients aren't eager...toward a heart transplant than an artificial heart,'' said Max Poulter, 63, a semi-retired...whatever I had to do, including an artificial heart.'' Lucille Dillard, 73, of Louisville...

Article: 31/2-Year Artificial Heart Patient Gets A Real, Quiet One
The Washington Post;  January 17, 2002 ;     157 words ...A man who lived with an artificial heart longer than any other U.S...a real heart. The Novacor artificial heart -- implanted Aug. 11, 1998...August the longest time with an artificial heart spent by an American. Two...