Renseignements généraux

Nº de série

prototype

Nº de partie

1

Nombre total de parties

6

Ou

dialysing membrane cylinder

Brevets

S/O

Description générale

metal; cellulose acetate casing

Dimensions

Remarque : Cette information reflète la taille générale pour l’entreposage et ne représente pas nécessairement les véritables dimensions de l’objet.

Longueur

S/O

Largeur

S/O

Hauteur

43,5 cm

Épaisseur

S/O

Poids

S/O

Diamètre

28,5 cm

Volume

S/O

Lexique

Groupe

Technologie médicale

Catégorie

Recherche

Sous-catégorie

S/O

Fabricant

Ou

Murray

Pays

Canada

État/province

Ontario

Ville

Toronto

Contexte

Pays

Canada

État/province

Ontario

Période

Used 1946- 1947.

Canada

First artificial kidney machine made in North America by Dr. Gordon Murray, simultaneously and independently of Willem Kolff's invention in Holland in the 1940s. Designed and built by Murray himself, it was used successfully on four patients at Toronto General Hospital, 1946-47. These patients, suffering from acute kidney failure, were the first in North America to be treated with renal dialysis. Murray was a remarkable surgeon and innovator whose work earned him international recognition. In the 1930s Dr. Murray introduced the anticoagulant Heparin to world clinical practice; in the '40s he developed the first artificial kidney in North America; and in 1955 he performed the first successful transplant of a human heart valve. Unfortunately, these achievements are often overshadowed by his later, controversial work on an anti-cancer serum, and on unconventional surgery for injuries caused by traumatic paraplegia. (Ref. 3]

Fonction

To filter impurities from blood.

Technique

Filtering unit is composed of bath jar (.3) containing wire mesh cylinder wrapped around with casing (.1), within which a thermometer, stirrer and heating coil are suspended from the cover (.2). The pump unit (.4) was used to circulate blood through the filter [ie. membrane and dialysate solution], and return it to the patient. Parts of this first artificial kidney machine were used in the development and earliest versions of Murray's second artificial kidney machine, designed with Dr. Walter Roschlau c. 1951-53. [see 2002.0610]

Notes sur la région

Inconnu

Détails

Marques

None evident.

Manque

Unknown.

Fini

Metal frame; metal wire mesh covering; cellulose acetate casing.

Décoration

S/O