Modulung Membrane Oxygenator
date: label: Date made
content: About 1970
name: label: inventor
content: Leonard, Ronald J.
label: maker
content: Travenol Laboratories Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: In the 1960s, many physicians and engineers worked to develop a practical and effective oxygenator. Travenol Laboratories, a pharmaceutical specialties division of Baxter Labs, began producing oxygenators in the early 1970s. This Travenol Modulung Membrane Oxygenator is a disposable gas exchange device that permits oxygen perfusion of blood and removal of carbon dioxide. It was designed for use in conjunction with heart bypass pumps during cardiopulmonary bypass surgery.
label: Description
content: This oxygenator belonged to Ronald James Leonard (1939-2007), a biomedical engineer with a MS degree from Northwestern University who worked for Travenol Laboratories from 1967 to 1985, and the Sarns/3M Company from 1985 to 1997.
label: Description
content: Ref: Ronald J. Leonard, “The Transition from the Bubble Oxygenator to the Microporous Membrane Oxygenator,” Perfusion 18 (2003): 179-183.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Surgery
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Leona R. Leonard
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2007.0106.01
label: catalog number
content: 2007.0106.01
label: accession number
content: 2007.0106
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Oxygenator
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 28.2 cm x 3.5 cm x 20 cm; 11 1/8 in x 1 3/8 in x 7 7/8 in