|
Disclaimer:
Whonamedit.com does not give medical advice.
This survey of medical eponyms and the persons behind them is meant as a general interest site only. No information found here must under any circumstances be used for medical purposes, diagnostically, therapeutically or otherwise. If you, or anybody close to you, is affected, or believe to be affected, by any condition mentioned here: see a doctor.
|
A recommendation:
Hypography is an open community about science and all things related
|
|
|
Lillehei-DeWall oxygenator
Associated persons:
Richard A. DeWall
Clarence Walton Lillehei
Description:
A bubble oxygenator that supplanted the use of cross-circulation in open-heart surgery in 1955. This device allowed for tremendous growth of open heart surgical programs the world over. It was developed by DeWall.
|
|
|
