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Gibbon heart-lung bypass machine
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Gibbon Heart-lung Bypass Machine

In 1955 Mayo Clinic was among the first to perform and refine the techniques of open-heart surgery, including the Mayo-Gibbon heart-lung machine.

This artifact appears with the following story:
1955 First Open Heart Surgery
Mechanical pump function's as heart during surgery.
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