Exchanger, heat

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OBJECT TYPE: blood/Heimbecker
DATE: 1958
ARTIFACT NUMBER: 2002.0566.001

MANUFACTURER: Canadian Pipe & Steel Fabricators
MODEL: Unknown
LOCATION: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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General Information

Serial #: prototype
Part Number: 1
Total Parts: 1
AKA: N/A
Patents: N/A
General Description: stainless steel

Dimensions

Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.

Length: 61.7 cm
Width: N/A
Height: N/A
Thickness: N/A
Weight: N/A
Diameter: 13.5 cm
Volume: N/A

Lexicon

Group: Medical Technology
Category: Medical equipment
Sub-Category: N/A

Manufacturer

AKA: Canadian Pipe
Country: Canada
State/Province: Ontario
City: Toronto

Context

Country: Canada
State/Province: Ontario
Period: Used 1958-1963.
Canada: Designed by Dr. Raymond Heimbecker, at Banting Institute surgical research laboratory. The blood-heat exchanger and oxygenator were successfully used in 1958 for the first adult open heart operation in Canada . Used with oxygenator 2002.0565 in open heart surgery at Toronto General Hospital from 1958-63. Manufactured by Canadian Pipe & Steel Fabricators, Toronto.
Function: To maintain precise temperature of blood circulating through human body during surgery.
Technical: Blood-heat exchanger designed to maintain the precise control of blood temperature: body temperature of patient is consequently regulated. Thermostat can also produce rapid cooling and warming of patient, thus lowering their metabolic rate. Intake and output of oxygenated blood took place through two threaded openings on cylinder. Inside the cylinder are twenty pipes, through which the blood is circulated. Oxygenated (purified) blood was returned to the patient via their aorta canula.
Area Notes: Unknown

Details

Markings: UHN catalogue no. "995.3.1" printed by hand in black ink on one end.
Missing: None.
Finish: Bright stainless-steel finish on all exterior surfaces.
Decoration: N/A

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Canadian Pipe & Steel Fabricators, Exchanger, heat, 1958, Artifact no. 2002.0566, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/2002.0566.001/

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