General Information

Serial #

4145

Part Number

1

Total Parts

1

AKA

N/A

Patents

N/A

General Description

Clear synthetic cylinder contains bead-like buff-colour opaque and translucent sorbent material [resins]; both ends of cylinder fitted with fine grey mesh [metal ?]; cylinder chamber entrance and exit ports sealed by bright green synthetic caps.

Dimensions

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

Length

29.0 cm

Width

N/A

Height

N/A

Thickness

N/A

Weight

N/A

Diameter

8.0 cm

Volume

N/A

Lexicon

Group

Medical Technology

Category

Medical equipment

Sub-Category

N/A

Manufacturer

AKA

Unknown

Country

Unknown

State/Province

Unknown

City

Unknown

Context

Country

Unknown

State/Province

Unknown

Period

This cartridge is new/never used. This type of cartridge used c. 1970s; possibly also earlier/later.

Canada

Part of a large collection of medical artifacts, archival material & trade literature transferred to CSTM in 2002 from the former History of Medicine Museum, Toronto, ON.

Function

Used as filter to remove toxic or waste substances from blood.

Technical

Hemoperfusion is a extracorporeal form of treatment, as blood is pumped through a device outside the patient's body. It is more effective than other methods of treatment for removing certain specific toxins from the blood, especially those that bind to proteins in the body or are difficult to dissolve in water. Hemoperfusion can process over 300mL of blood per minute, a larger volume of blood than hemodialysis or other filtration methods. Resins and various forms of activated carbon or charcoal are the sorbents most commonly used in hemoperfusion: blood is passed over the sorbent material, which attracts and holds the toxins, and allows the "cleansed" blood to be returned to the patient. This cartridge is believed to contain resin sorbents, as were used in the 1970s by Dr. J.L. Rosenbaum.

Area Notes

Unknown

Details

Markings

"extracorporeal/ HEMOPERFUSION CARTRIDGE/ (Rosenbaum Design)/ Lot R7465 Serial No. 3145/ 9077-880 8/77" printed on off-white label applied to cylinder. "CMST/ un numbered part/ of TGH Cardiovascular/ museum" printed by hand in blue ink on pale yellow label fixed to cylinder.

Missing

Unknown: appears complete.

Finish

Clear synthetic cylinder contains bead-like buff-colour opaque and translucent sorbent material [resins]; both ends of cylinder fitted with fine grey mesh [metal ?]; cylinder chamber entrance and exit ports sealed by bright green synthetic caps.

Decoration

N/A