Blood Oxygenator
date: label: date made
content: ca 1983
name: label: maker
content: Shiley Incorporated
notes: label: Description
content: Shiley S-100-A Blood Oxygenator that goes with the Heart Lung Machine (cat. 1994.0366.01) in the collection.
label: Description
content: Donald Pearce Shiley (1920-2010) was an engineer with a degree from the University of Portland who worked for Edwards Laboratories, in Orange County, Ca., the first manufacturer of artificial heart-valves. He later established Shiley Labs in the same area. He sold his company to Pfizer in 1979.
label: Description
content: Ref: M. F. Roesler, C. Bull, and M. T. Ionescu, “Clinical and Laboratory Evaluation of the Shiley S-100-A oxygenator-heat exchanger,” Cardiovascular Surgery 21 (1980): 271-278.
label: Description
content: “Donald P. Shiley dies at 90; co-inventor of Bjork—Shiley heart valve,” Los Angeles Times (Aug. 7, 2010).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: California, Irvine
topic: label: Subject
content: Surgery
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Shiley Incorporated through Peter Kurstein
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1997.0031.01
label: catalog number
content: 1997.0031.01
label: accession number
content: 1997.0031
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Oxygenator
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 39 cm x 13.5 cm x 23 cm; 15 11/32 in x 5 5/16 in x 9 1/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 69 in x 35 in x 79 in; 175.26 cm x 88.9 cm x 200.66 cm