Blood-Gas Manometer
notes: label: Description
content: Blood-gas manometer associated with John W. Severinghaus (1922-2021), a physicist who worked on radar design during World War II, received an MD from Columbia University, studied anesthesia at the University of Pennsylvania, and established a Department of Anesthesiology at the University of California at San Francisco.
label: Description
content: Ref: John W. Severinghouse, “The Invention and Development of Blood Gas Analysis Apparatus,” Anesthesiology 97 (2002): 253-256.
label: Description
content: Philip E. Bickler, Thomas Hornbein, and Lawrence J. Seidman, “John W. Severinghaus, M.D., 1922 to 2021,” Anesthesiology 135 (2021): 555-557.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of John W. Servinghaus
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1982.0218.01
label: accession number
content: 1982.0218
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0218.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Manometer, Blood-Gas
label: Other Terms
content: Manometer, Blood-Gas; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 20.5 cm x 24 cm x 18.2 cm; 8 1/16 in x 9 7/16 in x 7 5/32 in