Cournand Needle for Drawing Blood
notes: label: Description
content: A Cournand needle isused for sampling arterial blood. Andre F. Cournand (1895-1988) was a French physiologist who emigrated to the United States in 1930, became a professor at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City. In 1956 he was a joint winner of a Nobel Prize for work related to circulation and cardiac catheterization.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Becton, Dickinson and Company
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-06720.17
label: accession number
content: 201362
label: catalog number
content: M-06720.17
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Needle
label: Object Name
content: needle
label: Object Name
content: syringe
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: leur-locked (overall connector/connecting technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/4 in x 3 3/8 in x 1 in; 1.905 cm x 8.5725 cm x 2.54 cm