Heart-Lung Machine
date: label: Date made
content: 1983
name: label: maker
content: Sarns Incorporated
notes: label: Description
content: Richard N. Sarns was a machinist from Mount Clemens, Mich., who attended the local high school in 1944, spent some time in the Navy, studied at the Lawrence Institute of Technology, worked for the Argus Camera Co., and, in 1960, established his own firm making medical devices. As the University of Michigan Medical School began experimenting with open heart surgery, Sarns helped create the technology needed to keep a patient alive during this process. His company designed and built the heart-lung machines that made it possible to carry out these procedures. He later helped develop filtering machines for kidney dialysis. The University of Michigan later gave Sarns an honorary doctorate of engineering. And the Department of Surgery established a Dick Sarns Innovation Award. In the early 1980s Sarns, Inc. was sold to 3M.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Michigan, Ann Arbor
topic: label: Subject
content: Medicine
label: Subject
content: Cardiology
label: Subject
content: Surgery
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Sarns Incorporated
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1994.0366.01
label: catalog number
content: 1994.0366.01
label: accession number
content: 1994.0366
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Heart-Lung Machine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal, stainless steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 190 cm x 157 cm x 87 cm; 74 13/16 in x 61 13/16 in x 34 1/4 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 69 in x 35 in x 79 in; 175.26 cm x 88.9 cm x 200.66 cm