Integral Fin-Type Blood Heat Exchanger
date: label: Date made
content: 1960
name: label: maker
content: Himmel Brothers Company
label: maker
content: Glenn, William W. L.
notes: label: Description
content: The fin-type heat exchanger was designed for use with the Kay-Cross oxygenator for hypothermia. The form was developed by Jan Stolwijk and George Rapp according to the specifications of William Glenn (1914-2003), chief of cardiovascular surgery at Yale University. Jan A. J. Stolwijk (1927-2001) was born in the Netherlands, earned a PhD in plant science, moved to the United States in the mid-1950s, and spent most of his career at Yale.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Edwards Lifesciences, LLC
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2002.0151.06
label: accession number
content: 2002.0151
label: catalog number
content: 2002.0151.06
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Heat Exchanger
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 125 cm x 4.7 cm x 13 cm; 49 3/16 in x 1 7/8 in x 5 1/8 in