An artificial heart was perhaps one of the long sought after medical ideas of the medicine world of today. The reason why medical people all over the world were desperate for the success of such an invention was to lower the pressure on heart transplants, the supply of which is always lower than the demand. The concept of the way the heart functions is not very hard to grasp, it is a body of muscle that pumps blood, but it entails such complications which proves it to be the delicate darling of the body. These complications subsequently affect the body to reject foreign objects or start limiting the patient’s ability to move. For these reasons, a successful invention of an artificial heart was not only important but was also very trying.

The interest in developing an artificial heart has been around for years, from way back in 1949 and all over the world. It was in 1949 that the fore runner of the modern artificial heart had been created by Bill Sewell using an Erector Set and other odds and ends from the general store. This device lasted in a bypassed dog for a little more than sixty minutes. This was followed by Dr. Kolff (the world’s best known inventor of artificial organs) to experiment by replacing his model of an artificial heart into a dog which survived for a little longer than eighty minutes, this was in 1952. It was finally in 1982, after more than a hundred efforts all over the world, Dr. William DeVries, successfully transplanted his model of the artificial heart into a living human being who survived for almost a hundred and twelve days. Since then, more than three hundred people have received this Jarvik Model of the artificial heart and most have survived it.

Towards the late 1980’s, the artificial heart began to develop into a more permanent and implantable device. They began to be better electrically powered and monitored. According to the specialists of heart transplants such as the French A. Carpentier, the fully working artificial heart would be ready for use and transplants by 20013 by him and his team. There are such teams all over the world striving for similar results.