HEPARIN-COATED BLOOD OXYGENATORS

BI 108: ORGAN REPLACEMENT WEBPAGE PROJECT

 

"It is only necessary to ... withdraw blood from a vein, introduce oxygen and allow carbon dioxide to escape, and then inject the blood into a peripheral artery. It would permit, of course, operations within the heart under direct vision."
~John Gibbon Jr., 1949 - Developer of the first heart-lung machine