Fiber Plasmafilter
name: label: maker
content: Gambro Renal Products
notes: label: Description
content: An inscription on this item reads in part “gambro / fiber / plasmofilter” and “Manufactured by / Gambro Dialysisatoren . . . Federal Republic of Germany / AUT 224 / A N50175 rev. 09/81”. Nils Alwall (1904-1986), Professor of Nephrology at Lund University, in Sweden, invented the world’s first single-use artificial kidney in the early 1960s. In 1964, Holger Crafoord, a Swedish industrialist, formed Gamla Brogatans Sjukvårdsaffär (translated as Old Bridge Street Medical Supplies Company) to introduce Alwall’s invention to the medical world. That firm, soon known as Gambro, began developing the single-use artificial kidney into a marketable product. It also established a manufacturing facility in Germany.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Arthur A. Ciarkowski
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2003.0337.10
label: catalog number
content: 2003.0337.10
label: accession number
content: 2003.0337
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Hemodializer
label: Object Name
content: hemodializer
label: Object Name
content: kidney, artificial
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 30.5 cm x 6 cm; 12 in x 2 3/8 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 in x 10 in x 2 3/8 in; 12.7 cm x 25.4 cm x 6.0325 cm