John Gibbon and His Heart-Lung Machine

by Ada Romaine-Davis

Book Overview

John Heysham Gibbon, Jr., M.D., was the first researcher to develop a heart-lung machine that could fully support an adult's cardiac and respiratory functions during surgical procedures to repair defects in the heart and lungs. The difficulty of such a task can be seen in the number of people who attempted it for over a century: the list is long. Gibbon succeeded on May 6, 1953, when he repaired an atrial-septal defect with the patient supported...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812230736
• ISBN13: 9780812230734
• Release Date: March 1992
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary