Lande-Edwards Flat Plate Dialyzer and Membrane Oxygenator
date: label: Date made
content: 1965
notes: label: Description
content: The Landé-Edwards Membrane Oxygenator—designed by Arnold Landé, manufactured by Edwards Laboratory, and introduced in 1968—was the first compact, totally disposable, commercially available disposable membrane for extracorporeal gas exchange manufactured on a large scale.
label: Description
content: Ref: “New Heart Pump Small and Simple,” New York Times (Feb. 16, 1967), p. 40.
label: Description
content: Arnold J. 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: Kelly Hedlund, “Remembering the Landé-Edwards Membrane Oxygenator,” https://www.theaacp.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Lande-Edwards-Article.pdf
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Surgery
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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: 2002.0151.09
label: accession number
content: 2002.0151
label: catalog number
content: 2002.0151.09
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Oxygenator
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 cm x 30.5 cm x 20 cm; 4 5/16 in x 12 in x 7 7/8 in