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Sur Surgeon John Gibbon Case Study

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Surgeon John H. Gibbon Jr. performs first successful heart surgery with the assistance of a heart-lung machine.
Gibbon is the inventor of this machine.
The machine oxygenated and pumped blood in the heart.
This operation was the first to use a machine that duplicated functions of the cardiopulmonary system.
Used on a 18 year old women with a atrial septal defect. When: May 6, 1953
Where: Thomas Jefferson Hospital, Philadelphia
Why: After witnessing a death of a patient from pulmonary embolectomy, Gibbon had an idea for a machine that could take deoxygenated blood, oxygenated it, and pump it into the arterial system.
How: with his wife 's help, they worked to develop a circulatory device. When testing the machine they used animals to see
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