First Heart-Lung Machine Operation
“Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, May 6, 1953. John Gibbon performs the first successful open-heart surgery using a heart-lung machine. Foreground shows the bulky pump-oxygenator with tubing running to the patient's chest; midground reveals Gibbon and his team in green gowns under bright operating lights; the dawn of cardiac surgery breathes through plastic and brass tubing on an OR table.”
