Kay-Cross Rotating Disc Oxygenator
date: label: Date made
content: 1956
notes: label: Description
content: The Kay-Cross rotating-disc perfusion oxygenator, which takes the place of the heart and lungs during cardiac surgery, was designed by Earl B. Kay (1927-2012) and Frederick Samuel Cross (b. 1920) and put into operation at St. Vincent’s Charity Hospital in Cleveland in 1956. This example may be a prototype.
label: Description
content: Ref: Kelly D. Hedlund, “Remembering the Disc Oxygenator,” The Academy Newsletter (Fall 2011): 10-12.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Ohio, Cleveland
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: 2002.0151.15
label: accession number
content: 2002.0151
label: catalog number
content: 2002.0151.15
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Oxygenator
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 17 cm x 40.5 cm x 16.7 cm; 6 11/16 in x 15 15/16 in x 6 9/16 in