Heart-lung machine and open-heart surgery
Máquina corazón-pulmón y cirugía a corazón abierto
- Date
- 1953 · confidence high
- Place
- Jefferson Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
- Credited to
- John Gibbon (first successful operation, 6 May 1953); refined at the Mayo Clinic (Kirklin) and Minnesota (Lillehei)
- People
- 👤 John Heysham Gibbon1903–1973
- Field
- Life & health
What it is
A pump and oxygenator that take over the heart and lungs during an operation, allowing the heart to be stopped and opened. It made modern cardiac surgery possible.
What it led to
- The repair of congenital heart defects and artificial valves
- Coronary bypass surgery and heart transplantation
- ECMO for severe respiratory failure
Built on
- Blood transfusion1665-1667
- Artificial kidney (hemodialysis)1943–1945
- heparin
- blood transfusion
- roller pumps