Who is credited with inventing the first artificial heart?!


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Who is credited with inventing the first artificial heart?


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Artificial Hearts are you talking of implantable or external?

External Heart perfusion:
A pioneer in vascular surgery, Carrel had received a Nobel Prize in 1912 for his revolutionary technique of transplanting organs and suturing blood vessels ( External perfusion technique),
(AmericanHeritage.com).
Implantable first patented:
Dr.Paul Winchell.
http://www.paulwinchell.com/artificialhe...
Many other claimants are in question, e.g:
Dr. Robert Jarvik




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