Dow Corning Silastic Brand Membrane Oxygenator (Kolobow type)
notes: label: Description
content: Theodor Kolobow was born in Estonia in 1931 and spent the war years in a displaced person camp in Germany. After the war he received a scholarship to Heidelberg College in Tiffin, Ohio. As a medical student at Case Western Reserve University, he worked with Dr. George H. A. Clowes, a surgeon who was developing new methods for oxygenating blood during cardiopulmonary bypass operations. Following graduation, Dr. Kolobow joined the National Heart Institute, and spent the rest of his career with that a branch of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Md. His greatest innovation was probably extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO).
label: Description
content: Ref: John H. Trahanas, Mary Ann Kobolow, Mark A. Hardy, Lorenzo Berra, Warren M. Zapol, and Robert H. Bartlett, “‘Treating Lungs’: The Scientific Contributions of Dr. Theodor Kolobow,” ASAIO Journal 62 (2016): 203-210.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2012.0165.618
label: accession number
content: 2012.0165
label: catalog number
content: 2012.0165.618
objectType: label: Object Name
content: artificial kidney
label: Object Name
content: oxygenator
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 3/8 in x 5 3/8 in x 3 3/8 in; 26.3525 cm x 13.6525 cm x 8.5725 cm