Surgical Clamp
date: label: Date made
content: 1983
name: label: maker
content: Narco Scientific. Pilling Division
notes: label: Description
content: Surgical clamp with “LifeLok” and “PILLING/ USA …” inscriptions. Pilling filed for a trademark on the term “LIFE LOK” and the associated insignia in 1974.
label: Description
content: Ref: Pilling, Cardiovascular, Thoracic and General Surgical Instruments (1979), p. 243.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Fort Washington
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Pilling Weck
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1994.0365.18
label: catalog number
content: 1994.0365.18
label: accession number
content: 1994.0365
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Clamp
label: Object Name
content: clamp
label: Object Name
content: surgical instrument
label: Other Terms
content: Clamp; Grasping and Fixating Instruments; Vascular; Debakey Angled Straight Jaw Peripheral Vascular Clamp
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal, stainless steel (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 7.2 cm x 8 cm x 19.6 cm; 2 13/16 in x 3 1/8 in x 7 11/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 3/8 in x 7 7/8 in x 3 in; 3.4925 cm x 20.0025 cm x 7.62 cm