Oxygenator part

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OBJECT TYPE: bubble/Heimbecker
DATE: 1957–1963
ARTIFACT NUMBER: 2002.0565.004

MANUFACTURER: Canadian Pipe & Steel Fabricators
MODEL: Unknown
LOCATION: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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General Information

Serial #: N/A
Part Number: 4
Total Parts: 4
AKA: N/A
Patents: N/A
General Description: Brass rod and metal tube

Dimensions

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Lexicon

Group: Medical Technology
Category: Medical equipment
Sub-Category: N/A

Manufacturer

AKA: Canadian Pipe
Country: Canada
State/Province: Ontario
City: Toronto

Context

Country: Canada
State/Province: Ontario
Period: Used 1958-1963.
Canada: Designed by Dr. Raymond Heimbecker, at Banting Institute surgical research laboratory. After c. 1 1/2 years of laboratory testing, the oxygenator & blood-heat exchanger were successfully used in 1958 for the first adult open heart operation in Canada . Used with blood-heat exchanger 2002.0566 in open heart surgery at Toronto General Hospital from 1958-63, when replaced by commercial disc oxygenator. Manufactured by Canadian Pipe & Steel Fabricators, Toronto.
Function: Unknown
Technical: Perforated lid allows carbon dioxide dispelled from blood to be dispersed into the atmosphere.
Area Notes: Unknown

Details

Markings: None apparent
Missing: Appears complete
Finish: Brass coloured metal rod and flange attached to a grey coloured metal tube.
Decoration: N/A

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Canadian Pipe & Steel Fabricators, Oxygenator part, between 1957–1963, Artifact no. 2002.0565, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collections.ingeniumcanada.org/en/item/2002.0565.004/

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