John Gibbon and His Heart-Lung Machine

John Gibbon and His Heart-Lung Machine
ISBN-10
1512806358
ISBN-13
9781512806359
Category
Medical
Pages
278
Language
English
Published
2016-11-11
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Author
Ada Romaine-Davis

Description

John Heysham Gibbon, Jr., M.D., was the first researcher to develop a heart-lung machine that could fully support an adult's cardiac and respiratory functions during surgical procedures to repair defects in the heart and lungs. Romaine-Davis here provides a thorough study of Gibbon and his accomplishment.

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