Repair of Ruptured Ventricular Septom
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content: National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Medical Sciences
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content: National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Medical Sciences
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content: Medical Sciences Film Collection
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content: Medical Sciences Film Collection / Series 1: Technical Films
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content: 1 Film reel (color, composite optical soundtrack, print, 16mm; 400 feet)
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content: 1963
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content: Reel OF 222.19
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content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: Photography, Harold Friedman, BPA. 

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Credits:  Adrian Kantrowitz, M.D. (F.A.C.S.), Bernard Levowitz, M.D., George Degenshein, M.D., Departments of Surgery, Maimonides Hospital of Brooklyn and State University of New York, College of Medicine Downstate, 1962.  Supported in part by U.S. Public Health Service Grant H-6510. 

Summary: Film shows the routine use of a completely automated disc-type pump oxygenator. This is the step-by-step surgery on a 53-year-old male who had suffered a coronary occlusion eleven months earlier.  Twelve days after the occlusion he had cardiac failure and was diagnosed as having a ruptured ventricular septum. After opening the chest cavity the patient is hooked up to the pump oxygenator, which completely supports him while the defect is closed. The heart continues to beat normally. Patient is up and around in eight days and leaves the hospital with no problems.