DeWall Bubble Oxygenator
date: label: Date made
content: 1955
name: label: maker
content: Phelan Manufacturing Co.
notes: label: Description
content: Richard Alison DeWall (1926-2016) was a young surgery instructor at the University of Minnesota when, in the 1950s, he developed a "bubble oxygenator" for use during heart surgery. This was a simple and inexpensive arrangement of cylinders and tubing that re-routs a patient's blood so it can be mixed with oxygen. It was made by the Phelan Manufacturing Co., a Minneapolis firm that was established in 1948 with the helping doctors and others involved in health care.
label: Description
content: Dr. DeWall later became Chairman of Surgery at Mount Sinai Hospital in Chicago. Later still he established an open heart surgery program at Kettering Hospital in Ohio.
label: Description
content: Ref: “JUNIOR CHAMBER BESTOWS HONORS,” New York Times (Jan. 17, 1958), p. 13.
label: Description
content: Richard DeWall, “Cardiovascular Inventiveness Within the University of Minnesota Department of Surgery,” Annals of Thoracic Surgery 79 (2005): S2214-S2216.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Minnesota, Minneapolis
topic: label: Subject
content: Surgery
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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: 2002.0151.17
label: accession number
content: 2002.0151
label: catalog number
content: 2002.0151.17
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Oxygenator
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 81.5 cm x 45 cm; 32 3/32 in x 17 23/32 in