Kolff-Effler Membrane Oxygenator
date: label: Date made
content: 1955
notes: label: Description
content: Willem J. Kolff (1911-2009) was a Dutch surgeon who immigrated to the United States in 1950 and worked for several years at the Cleveland Clinic. Donald Brian Effler (1915-2004) was chief of the thoracic and cardiovascular surgery department at the Cleveland Clinic at that time. Working together, the two men developed a membrane oxygenator.
label: Description
content: Ref: Willem J. Kolff and Donald B. Effler, “Disposable Membrane Oxygenator (Heart-Lung Machine) and its use in Experimental Surgery,” Cleveland Clinic Quarterly (April 1956).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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: 2002.0151.05
label: accession number
content: 2002.0151
label: catalog number
content: 2002.0151.05
objectType: label: Object Name
content: kidney, artificial
label: Object Name
content: oxygenator
label: Object Name
content: Oxygenator
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 16.3 cm x 9.4 cm; 6 7/16 in x 3 11/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 in x 8 in x 15 in; 20.32 cm x 20.32 cm x 38.1 cm