Dakota's Pump It Up Timeline

1966-Dr. DeBakey implants the first successful LVAD

1969-Dr. Cooley swipes DeBakey’s total artificial heart and implants it into a Haskell Karp, who dies soon after

1971-Robert Jarvik begins working with Kolff to develop a better artificial heart

1982-The Jarvik 7 was implanted into Barney Clark

1985-Bill Schroeder was implanted with the Jarvik-7 and lived for 620 days after the implant

1988-Robert Jarvik starts Jarvik Research to develop Jarvik 2000 LVAD

2000-Peter Houghton is the first patient to receive a permanent Jarvik 2000 FlowMaker. He survived for 7 years with the device.