Pioneers of Perfusion
Who performed the first successful open-heart surgery using a heart-lung machine?
John Gibbon Jr., May 6, 1953.
What year was heparin discovered, enabling safe anticoagulation for bypass?
1916
This stands for the life-support technique that temporarily takes over heart and lung function.
What is extracorporeal membrane oxygenation?
This WOW award-winner serves as the secretary for the Perfusion Program Directors Board, the CoA for SBB programs Public Member and on Chairs Council.
Julie Collins, CCP, LP, MS
Which surgeon refined Gibbon’s machine and led the first successful clinical series of open-heart surgeries?
Dr. John Kirklin.
What device, first used in 1934 by Michael DeBakey, became essential to heart-lung machines?
The roller pump
He is considered the “father of ECMO” and led the first neonatal success case in 1975 at UC.
Dr. Bartlett
Who pioneered cross-circulation techniques and trained Christiaan Barnard, known as the “King of Hearts”?
Dr. C. Walton Lillehei.
What device introduced in 1967 by Kantrowitz helps augment coronary perfusion in cardiogenic shock?
Intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP)
Surname of the newborn survivor that gave neonatal ECMO its early hope.
Esperanza
What major American institution was the site of the first successful series of open-heart surgeries using CPB?
Mayo Clinic
What 2007 randomized trial linked this monitoring technology with improved neurologic outcomes after CABG?
Cerebral oximetry
This organization, founded in 1989, tracks ECMO outcomes and develops international standards of care.
ELSO (Extracorporeal Life Support Organization)
Which perfusion pioneer famously said, “Science is an endless frontier”?
C. Walton Lillehei
What company partnered with Gibbon to build the first clinical heart-lung machine?
IBM
During ECMO, the type of oxygenator used today that replaced the bubble design of early CPB circuits.
Membrane oxygenator