Ablaza-Morse "Atraumatic" Rib Approximator
date: label: associated dates
content: 1983 10 / 1983 10
notes: label: Description
content: The Ablaza-Morse Atraumatic Rib Approximator was devised by Sariel Ablaza (d. 2019), a surgeon from the Philippines who practiced at the Albert Einstein Medical Center and taught at the Medical College of Pennsylvania; and Dryden Phelps Morse (1924-2002), a heart surgeon who practiced in New Jersey and Philadelphia; and Gumersindo Blanco (1922-2007), a surgeon from Puerto Rico who practiced in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Puerto Rico.
label: Description
content: Ref: Sariel G. G. Ablaza, Dryden P. Morse, and Gumersindo Blanco, “Atraumatic Rib Approximator,” The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2 (1966): 868-869.
label: Description
content: Sariel Ablaza, “Apparatus and Method for Surgical Repair of Dissecting Thoracic Aneurisms and the Like,” U.S. Patent 4,190,909 (March 4, 1980).
label: Description
content: “Sariel G. G. Ablaza, M.D. Prominent Thoracic Surgeon,” in Isabelo T. Crisostomo, Filipino Achievers in the USA and Canada: Profiles in Excellence (Farmington Hills, MI., 1996), pp. 197-202.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: associated place
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Fort Washington
topic: label: Subject
content: Filipino Americans
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Pilling Weck
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1994.0365.02
label: catalog number
content: 1994.0365.02
label: accession number
content: 1994.0365
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Approximator
label: Object Name
content: approximator, rib
label: Object Name
content: surgical instrument
label: Other Terms
content: Approximator; Grasping and Fixating Instruments
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal, stainless steel (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 8 cm x 15.2 cm x 2.6 cm; 3 1/8 in x 6 in x 1 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/8 in x 6 in x 3 in; 2.8575 cm x 15.24 cm x 7.62 cm