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Reported early clinical application of a mechanical heart–lung apparatus to permit intracardiac surgery under direct vision.
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Scientific scope
The record is the exact 1954 Minnesota Medicine article and its reported clinical applications. Experimental development, other teams’ pump–oxygenators, later cardiopulmonary-bypass practice and broader open-heart surgery history remain separate.
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- PubMed record for Gibbon’s heart–lung apparatus article
- Historical review of Gibbon and the heart–lung machine
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John H. Gibbon Jr.
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Gibbon: applying a mechanical heart–lung apparatus to cardiac surgery
Reported early clinical application of a mechanical heart–lung apparatus to permit intracardiac surgery under direct vision.
Scientific scope
The record is the exact 1954 Minnesota Medicine article and its reported clinical applications. Experimental development, other teams’ pump–oxygenators, later cardiopulmonary-bypass practice and broader open-heart surgery history remain separate.
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This is a source-linked WRS catalogue note. A full explanatory guide and independent scientific reconstruction have not been completed for this entry. Read the identified original work for its complete narrative and arguments.
People and systems
John H. Gibbon Jr.
The named authors contributed to this scoped work; individual effort shares and later applications are not assigned by the byline.