<![CDATA[Carrel-Lindbergh Perfusion Pump, 1935"Impact on medical science: This pump was the demonstration that life could be sustained by a machine that works very much like the heart.]]>

<![CDATA[Carrel-Lindbergh Perfusion Pump, 1935"Impact on medical science: This pump was the demonstration that life could be sustained by a machine that works very much like the heart.]]>Carrel-Lindbergh Perfusion Pump, 1935
"Impact on medical science: This pump was the demonstration that life could be sustained by a machine that works very much like the heart. It led to developing implantable synthetic hearts and heart-lung machines for open heart surgery in the 1950s."
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Reading the reference papers quickly, there are brief mentions of infection control -- the glassware is "flamed" and Dakin's Solution is applied to the organ.

https://digitalcommons.rockefeller.edu/scientific-instruments/1/

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