Knife, commissurotomy
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- OBJECT TYPE
- cardiac/mitral/finger
- DATE
- 1951
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 2002.0946.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Unknown
- MODEL
- Unknown
- LOCATION
- Unknown
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 1
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- silver metal
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 27.0 cm
- Width
- 8.0 cm
- Height
- 1.4 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Medical Technology
- Category
- Instruments
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Unknown
- Country
- Unknown
- State/Province
- Unknown
- City
- Unknown
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Ontario
- Period
- Possibly used c.1951 +
- Canada
-
Part of a large collection of medical artifacts, archival material & trade literature transferred to CSTM in 2002 from the former History of Medicine Museum, Toronto, ON. - Function
-
Unknown - Technical
-
Finger fracture of the mitral valve. Mitral knives were inserted blindly with the finger through the left atrial appendage (commissurotomy). [Ref. 3] Thumb pressure on sliding disc at one end effects a tongue-shaped cutting blade at the other. Action is accomplished through a flexible coil. [Ref. 2] - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- UHN catalogue no. "994.1.44" printed by hand in black ink on plunger.
- Missing
- Appears complete.
- Finish
- Bright and dull silver metal.
- Decoration
- N/A
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Unknown Manufacturer, Knife, commissurotomy, 1951, Artifact no. 2002.0946, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collections.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/2002.0946.001/
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