Inventor

Jr Edmund A Barber

Patents indexed

Year range

1955

Associated with

Years active

1955

Total patents

Most recent

1955

Frequent collaborator

Jr John H Gibbon

Domains

biotechmechanical

Activity by decade

1950s

Patents

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1 patents, in 1955

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How the First Heart-Lung Machine Oxygenated Blood

A 1955 invention that allowed surgeons to oxygenate a patient's blood outside the body, enabling the first successful open-heart surgeries.

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