Casteneda Clamp
date: label: Date made
content: 1983
name: label: maker
content: Narco Scientific. Pilling Division
notes: label: Description
content: The Castaneda surgical clamp was named for Aldo R. Castaneda (1930-2021), a cardiac surgeon born in Italy to a father from Guatemala and a mother from Nicaragua. After attending medical school in Guatemala, Dr. Castaneda spent 14 years at the University of Minnesota, working with a team that specialized in cardiac surgery. In 1972, he became Cardiac Surgeon-in-Chief in the Children’s Hospital of Boston, and a professor at the Harvard Medical School.
label: Description
content: Ref: Pilling, Catalogue of Cardiovascular, Thoracic and General Surgical Instruments (1979), p. 276.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Fort Washington
setName: label: See more items in
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: 1994.0365.26
label: accession number
content: 1994.0365
label: catalog number
content: 1994.0365.26
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Clamp
label: Object Name
content: clamp
label: Object Name
content: surgical instrument
label: Other Terms
content: Clamp; Grasping and Fixating Instruments; Vascular; Pediatric
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal, stainless steel (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 2 cm x 7.9 cm x 15 cm; 13/16 in x 3 1/8 in x 5 7/8 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/4 in x 6 in x 3 in; 1.905 cm x 15.24 cm x 7.62 cm