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John Heysham Gibbon (September 29, 1903 – February 5, 1973) was an American surgeon best known for inventing the heart–lung machine and performing subsequent open-heart surgeries which revolutionized heart surgery in the twentieth century.
Learn about the life and achievements of John Heysham Gibbon Jr., an American surgeon who created the first heart-lung machine in 1953. Find out how he used his device to perform the first successful open-heart operation on a human and how he collaborated with IBM engineers to improve it.
On May the 6th, 1953 John H. Gibbon Jr., MD (Dr. Gibbon) became the first surgeon to perform an open cardiotomy during bypass under direct vision in a human, by repairing an interatrial septal defect in an 18-year-old female (Fig. 1) 1. Dr.
- Tyler M. Bauer, Vakhtang Tchantchaleishvili
- 2018
Feb 1, 2016 · John Heysham Gibbon created a heart-lung machine that led to the first successful open-heart bypass surgery. In the process, this medical doctor who had a talent for engineering saved countless lives.
On May 6, 1953 at Jefferson Medical College Hospital, Dr. John Heysham Gibbon, Jr., his staff, and with the help of his latest-designed heart-lung machine, “Model II,” closed a very serious septal defect between the upper chambers of the heart of eighteen-year-old Cecelia Bavolek.
- F. Michael Angelo
- 2015
John Heysham Gibbon. The development of the heart-lung machine and its first successful clinical application in 1953 was the culmination of Dr. Gibbon's lifetime research project. Despite many technical obstacles, financial problems, and discouragement from colleagues, his goal was achieved after twenty tedious years of …
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In the late 1940s, Gibbon persuaded IBM President Thomas J. Watson to provide him with the technical expertise needed to produce a more sophisticated device. John Heysham Gibbon was born in Philadelphia and was a fourth generation physician.
