Object Details
- Description
- A heart-lung machine takes blood from a patient, oxygenates it, and pumps it back into the patient's body. Dr. John H. Gibbon developed the first successful machine of this sort, and demonstrated it at the Jefferson Hospital in Philadelphia in 1953. While that project was underway, Dr. John W. Kirklin, a surgeon at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, was assembling a team to develop, produce and test a new and improved machine. The first procedure with that machine was performed in March 1955. This example is a Mayo-Gibbon heart-lung machine, Model 1010B.
- Ref: “HEART-LUNG DEVICE SUCCESS IN SURGERY,” New York Times (May 30, 1953), p. 17.
- John H. Gibbon, Jr., et. al., “Oxygenating Unit for Extracorporeal Circulation Devices,” U.S. Patent 2,702,035 (Feb. 15, 1955), assigned to the Jefferson Medical College.
- Richard C. Daly, et. al., “Fifty Years of Open Heart Surgery at the Mayo Clinic,” Mayo Clinic Proceedings 80 (2005): 636-640.
- Irwin Speizer, “This 1950s Heart-Lung Machine Revolutionized Cardiac Surgery,” Smithsonian Magazine (May 24, 2019).
- “John W. Kirklin is Dead at 86; Innovator in Cardiac Surgery,” New York Times (April 30, 2004), p. A25.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Edwards Lifesciences LLC
- ca 1960s
- ID Number
- 2002.0151.01
- catalog number
- 2002.0151.01
- accession number
- 2002.0151
- Object Name
- heart-lung machine
- Physical Description
- plastic (overall material)
- chromium plate (overall material)
- stainless steel (overall material)
- rubber (overall material)
- plexiglass (overall material)
- teflon (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 182 cm x 77 cm x 96 cm; 71 5/8 in x 30 5/16 in x 37 13/16 in
- part 6: 47 cm x 7 cm x 15.6 cm; 18 1/2 in x 2 3/4 in x 6 1/8 in
- overall: 71 3/4 in x 37 3/4 in x 31 in; 182.245 cm x 95.885 cm x 78.74 cm
- place made
- United States: Minnesota, Rochester
- Related Publication
- Shumacker, Harris B.. The Evolution of Cardiac Surgery
- Fye, W. Bruce. American Cardiology: The History of a Speciality and College
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Health & Medicine
- Artificial Hearts
- Exhibition
- First Do No Harm
- Exhibition Location
- National Museum of American History
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Medicine
- Artificial Organs
- Cardiology
- Surgery
- Record ID
- nmah_1213038
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746aa-af3c-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
