Lifeline:Doctors in Texas Introduce Recipient of Tiny Heart Pump
NBC ID: ARV4JDLQJ8 | Production Unit: Nightly News | Media Type: Aired Show | Media ID: NY-NN-20000505-0001 | Air Date(s): 05/05/2000 | Event Date(s): 05/05/2000Transcript
Event Date(s): 05/05/2000 | Event Location(s): Texas; | Description: Model of a heart pump seen. In Texas, doctors introduce pump recipient Lois Spiller at a news conference. A heart rate machine seen. Spiller walks with her family members. Panning shot of an emergency room dissolves into a heart rate monitor seen. Heart pump seen. Doctors perform surgery. The heart pump the "Jarvik 2000" seen. In interview, Texas Heart Institute's Dr Robert Jarvik says their goal is to make a device which is totally forgettable, that the patient does not even know it is there. The artificial heart the "Jarvik 7" seen. Still of artificial heart patient Barney Clark in 1981 seen. "Jarvik 7" patient walks in hospital. Doctors insert the artificial heart surgically in 1981. Jarvik demonstrates the "Jarvik 2000". Graphic of how the "Jarvik 2000" works seen. Doctors insert the "Jarvik 2000". In interview Texas Heart Institute's Dr O.H. Frazier says the simplicity of the "Jarvik 2000's" implantation is hard to convey. Doctor sets left ventricle assist device(LVAD) on a table. Doctor pulls LVAD in a cooler on a hand truck. Doctor adjusts the LVAD. NBC's Robert Bazell reports on camera. Doctor adjusts the "Jarvik 2000". Spiller talks about the "Jarvik 2000" during a press conference. Heart rate monitor dissolves into breathing pump seen. Doctor pulls a hand truck with a cooler containing an LVAD. Worker picks up cooler and places it into automobile. Close-up of Spiller seen. Bazell closes in voiceover from New York City, New York.