Bentley Temptrol Bubble Oxygenator
date: label: Date made
content: 1966-1978
name: label: maker
content: Bentley Laboratories, Incorporated
notes: label: Description
content: The Bentley Temptrol Bubble Oxygenator was an early disposable bubble oxygenator with a hard shell and an integral heat exchanger. It was also the first medical application of Lexan plastic. It was manufactured by Bentley Laboratories, Inc., of Irvine, Ca., and remained in production until 1978.
label: Description
content: Ref: R. A. DeWall, D. J. Bentley, H. Mitsuo, V. Battung, H. Najafi, and T. Roden, “A Temperature Controlling (Omnithermic) Disposable Bubble Oxygenator for Total Body Perfusion,” Dis. Chest 49 (1966): 207.
label: Description
content: R. A. DeWall, H. Najafi, and T. Roden, “A Hard-Shell Temperature Controlling Disposable Blood Oxygenator: Use in Clinical Open Heart Surgery,” Journal of the American Medical Association 197 (1966): 1061.
label: Description
content: Bhagavant R. Kalke, Aldo Castaneda, and C. Walton Lillehei, “A Clinical Evaluation of the New Temtrol (Bentley) Disposable Blood Oxygenator,” Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 57 (1969): 679-687.
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: 2002.0151.10
label: accession number
content: 2002.0151
label: catalog number
content: 2002.0151.10
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Oxygenator