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Monday, March 17, 2003In 1950, Dr. Glenn and third-year medical student William H. Sewell fashioned a crude heart pump out of such materials as glass tubing, valves bought at a dime store, and a motor from a child's Erector set. In a groundbreaking operation, Dr. Glenn used the device to successfully divert blood flow from the heart of a dog for about an hour. The makeshift device, assembled with about $24 worth of parts, is considered the forerunner of heart-lung bypass machines and the artificial hearts that have captured headlines in the last two decades. Three years after Dr. Glenn's operation on the dog, the first human open heart procedure was conducted in Detroit using a heart bypass pump based on the Yale device. He adopted the dog as a pet. posted by Sydney on 3/17/2003 08:41:00 AM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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