Kay-Cross Rotating Disk Oxygenator
date: label: Date made
content: 1956
name: label: maker
content: Pemco Incorporated
notes: label: Description
content: The Kay-Cross oxygenator is a rotating-disc perfusion device that takes the place of a patient’s heart and lungs during surgery. Most notably, it removes carbon dioxide waste gases from the patient’s blood, infuses it with oxygen, and returns the blood to the body. It was developed by an interdisciplinary team of physicians, physiologists, engineers, fabricators and technicians coordinated by cardiothoracic surgeons Earl B. Kay (1911-2000) and Frederick Samuel Cross (1920-2007), in Cleveland, Ohio. This example was manufactured by Pemco Inc. and used at Saint Luke’s Hospital in Cleveland.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Ohio, Cleveland
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: 2002.0151.03
label: accession number
content: 2002.0151
label: catalog number
content: 2002.0151.03
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Oxygenator
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 7/8 in x 7 1/8 in x 28 3/4 in; 25.0825 cm x 18.0975 cm x 73.025 cm