Mayo-Gibbon Heart-Lung Machine
date: label: date made
content: ca 1960s
notes: label: Description
content: A heart-lung machine takes blood from a patient, oxygenates it, and pumps it back into the patient's body. Dr. John H. Gibbon developed the first successful machine of this sort, and demonstrated it at the Jefferson Hospital in Philadelphia in 1953. While that project was underway, Dr. John W. Kirklin, a surgeon at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, was assembling a team to develop, produce and test a new and improved machine. The first procedure with that machine was performed in March 1955. This example is a Mayo-Gibbon heart-lung machine, Model 1010B.
label: Description
content: Ref: “HEART-LUNG DEVICE SUCCESS IN SURGERY,” New York Times (May 30, 1953), p. 17.
label: Description
content: John H. Gibbon, Jr., et. al., “Oxygenating Unit for Extracorporeal Circulation Devices,” U.S. Patent 2,702,035 (Feb. 15, 1955), assigned to the Jefferson Medical College.
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content: Richard C. Daly, et. al., “Fifty Years of Open Heart Surgery at the Mayo Clinic,” Mayo Clinic Proceedings 80 (2005): 636-640.
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content: Irwin Speizer, “This 1950s Heart-Lung Machine Revolutionized Cardiac Surgery,” Smithsonian Magazine (May 24, 2019).
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content: “John W. Kirklin is Dead at 86; Innovator in Cardiac Surgery,” New York Times (April 30, 2004), p. A25.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Minnesota, Rochester
topic: label: Subject
content: Medicine
label: Subject
content: Artificial Organs
label: Subject
content: Cardiology
label: Subject
content: Surgery
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Artificial Hearts
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Shumacker, Harris B.. The Evolution of Cardiac Surgery
label: Related Publication
content: Fye, W. Bruce. American Cardiology: The History of a Speciality and College
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Edwards Lifesciences LLC
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2002.0151.01
label: catalog number
content: 2002.0151.01
label: accession number
content: 2002.0151
objectType: label: Object Name
content: heart-lung machine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: chromium plate (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: stainless steel (overall material)
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content: rubber (overall material)
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content: plexiglass (overall material)
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content: teflon (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 182 cm x 77 cm x 96 cm; 71 5/8 in x 30 5/16 in x 37 13/16 in
label: Measurements
content: part 6: 47 cm x 7 cm x 15.6 cm; 18 1/2 in x 2 3/4 in x 6 1/8 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 71 3/4 in x 37 3/4 in x 31 in; 182.245 cm x 95.885 cm x 78.74 cm