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Heart-lung machine from Royal Postgraduate Hospital Hammersmith c.1958

Heart-lung machine from Royal Postgraduate Hospital Hammersmith c.1958

1955-1960
Heart-lung machine from Royal Postgraduate Hospital Hammersmith c.1958, by New Electronic Products Ltd., English. Designed by D.G Melrose and used in the first open heart operations at that hospital. The blood flows over the rotating discs whilst a current of oxygen is blown across it.

Heart-lung machine from Royal Postgraduate Hospital Hammersmith c.1958

1955-1960
Crank handle associated with heart-lung machine from Royal Postgraduate Hospital Hammersmith c.1958, by New Electronic Products Ltd., English. Designed by D.G Melrose and used in the first open heart operations at that hospital. The blood flows over the rotating discs whilst a current of oxygen is blown across it.

Heart-lung machine

1955-1960