Mayo-Gibbon Heart-Lung Machine

Object Details

date made

ca 1960s

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.

Location

Currently not on view

place made

United States: Minnesota, Rochester

Subject

Medicine

Artificial Organs

Cardiology

Surgery

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Medicine and Science: Medicine

Health & Medicine

Artificial Hearts

Related Publication

Shumacker, Harris B.. The Evolution of Cardiac Surgery

Fye, W. Bruce. American Cardiology: The History of a Speciality and College

Credit Line

Gift of Edwards Lifesciences LLC

Data Source

National Museum of American History

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

Metadata Usage

CC0

GUID

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746aa-af3c-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record ID

nmah_1213038