John Gibbon and His Heart-Lung Machine

Name: John Gibbon and His Heart-Lung Machine
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Ada Romaine-Davis

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University of Pennsylvania Press
14 March 2017

Cardiovascular medicine; Cardiothoracic surgery

Series: Anniversary Collection

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. The difficulty of such a task can be seen in the number of people who attempted it for over a century: the list is long. Gibbon succeeded on May 6, 1953, when he repaired an atrial-septal defect with the patient supported entirely by the machine for 27 minutes.

Ada Romaine-Davis contends that few realize how long Gibbon worked to achieve this success. To rectify the situation, Romaine-Davis here provides a thorough study of Gibbon and his accomplishment. She shows how Gibbon overcame discouragement from his peers and mentors and obtained crucial support from IBM Board Chairman Thomas Watson. She examines each of the models produced by Gibbon and puts his achievement into historical perspective. Gibbon himself chose not to pursue cardiac surgery; he remained a thoracic surgeon. Others went on to develop the knowledge and skills that today make open-heart surgery as safe as other major surgical procedures. As Romaine-Davis amply demonstrates, these pioneers stand on the shoulders of a stubborn, persevering, single-minded genius whose determination to leave a legacy to his profession resulted in the one thing essential for sustained progress in heart surgery: John Gibbon's heart-lung machine.

This meticulously researched study will make fascinating reading for physicians-especially surgeons-as well as for students and scholars of medical history and science and technology.

By: Ada Romaine-Davis
Imprint: University of Pennsylvania Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 26mm
Weight: 650g
ISBN: 9780812230734
ISBN 10: 0812230736
Series: Anniversary Collection
Pages: 278
Publication Date: 14 March 2017
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Professional and scholarly , A / AS level , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Figures Plates Tables Acknowledgments and Permissions Preface Birth and Early Years The 1930s-Sigificant Years JHG the Inventor The 1940s-Model I Total Circulation Experiments with Occlusion of the Venae Cavae The 1950s-Model II Bypass Surgery in Humans Model III The Mayo Clinic The Mid-1950s to the 1970s Support for Medical Research-1930 to 1955 In Support of Animal Experimentation Impact of the Heart-Lung Machine Summing Up: JHG the Man Afterword Notes Glossary Appendix Biblliography Index

Ada Romaine-Davis was Professor of Nursing at the Johns Hopkins University.