New Artificial Lung
May 30, 2017 | Terry Sharrer
The heart lung machine Dr. John H. Gibbon Jr. invented and first used on a surgery patient in May 1953 was a complicated and massive “tool,” but it opened the way for surgeons to effect artificial circulation while repairing a still heart. Now, engineers at the University of Pittsburgh have developed a wearable artificial lung—small enough to fit in the palm of the hand—that bridges the heart-lung function for patients awaiting lung transplantation or recovering from such a procedure. MORE
Image Credit: The McGowan Institute For Regenerative Medicine, University of Pittsburgh