Carrel-Lindbergh perfusion pump
date: label: date made
content: ca 1935
name: label: inventor
content: Lindbergh, Charles A.
label: maker
content: Hopf, Otto
notes: label: Description
content: This perfusion pump was invented by aviator Charles Lindbergh and Dr. Alexis Carrel, recipient of the 1912 Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine for his work in vascular surgery.
label: Description
content: The glass pump was used to preserve animal organs outside the body, by pushing "artificial blood" through the pump and into the organ by way of a tube connected to the organ's artery keeping the organ alive for weeks. The Lindbergh-Carrel perfusion pump led to the development of the heart-lung machine and the feasibility of stopping the heart for open-heart surgery.
label: Description
content: Ref: Emily Redman, “To Save His Dying Sister-in-Law, Charles Lindbergh Invented a Medical Device,” Smithsonian Magazine (Sept. 9, 2015).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York
topic: label: Subject
content: Medical
label: Subject
content: Artificial Organs
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Artificial Hearts
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Hallowell, Christopher. Charles Lindbergh's Artificial Heart
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Georgetown University
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-12298
label: accession number
content: 279576
label: catalog number
content: M-12298
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pump
label: Object Name
content: perfusion pump
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 45 cm x 20 cm x 11 cm; 17 23/32 in x 7 7/8 in x 4 11/32 in