The pacemaker, the electrical foundation of the fortune that created The Bakken, was first used extensively in the early days of open-heart surgery. The pacemaker has kept company with the other forms of heart surgery ever since. In its earliest days, the pacemaker was sometimes called an "artificial heart". What would be more natural, then, than to have a Jarvik-7 mechanical heart in the same collection, and implantable heart-valves and blood vessels? Often as not, when we are given a collection of pacemakers it includes heart-valves and the like.

S1 - Blood pumps
S1.1 - External blood pumps
S1.2 - Internal assist pumps
S1.3 - Internal total pumps = artificial hearts)
S2 - Valves
S2.1 - Natural valves (preserved, implantable)
S2.2 - Ball valves
S2.2 - Disc valves
S3 - Artificial blood vessels
S3.1 - Natural vessels (preserved, implantable)
S3.2 - Dacron, et cetera

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© The Bakken Updated: April 6, 2007