heart-lung machine

  • First successful heart-lung machine surgery

    First successful heart-lung machine surgery

    In 1953, a heart-lung machine designed by Dr. John Gibbon was used in a successful open-heart surgery, he showed that an artificial device can temporarily perform the functions of the heart.

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