Lande-Edwards Membrane Oxygenator
date: label: Date made
content: 1968
name: label: maker
content: Edwards Laboratories
notes: label: Description
content: In 1963, Dr. Arnold Lande and Dr. C. Walton Lillehei, surgeons at the University of Minnesota, decided to build an efficient yet simple membrane lung. The result has been described as “the first compact, totally disposable, commercially available membrane device manufactured on a large scale.” A label on the front of this example reads “LANDÉ-EDWARDS MEMBRANE OXYGENATOR.”
label: Description
content: Ref: “NEW HEART PUMP SMALL AND SIMPLE,” New York Times (Feb. 16, 1967), p. 40.
label: Description
content: Arnold Lande and Clarence Walton Lillehei, “Membrane Oxygenator-Dialyzer,” U.S. Patent 3,396,849 (Aug. 13, 1968), assigned to The Regents of The University of Minnesota.
label: Description
content: “C. W. Lillehei, Leader in Open-Heart Surgery, Dies at 80,” New York Times (July 9, 1999), p. B9.
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: Edwards Lifesciences, LLC
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2002.0151.16
label: accession number
content: 2002.0151
label: catalog number
content: 2002.0151.16
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Oxygenator
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 20.3 cm x 21.3 cm x 23.5 cm; 8 in x 8 3/8 in x 9 1/4 in