史上第一颗人工心脏竟然是这样的
【原标题】史上第一颗人工心脏竟然是这样的
【来源】新华国际
【时间】2013-12-04
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新华网12月4日电 据科技博客Gizmodo文章，图中这个庞大无比的金属家伙你能猜到什么吗？看起来是不是很像现在的流动小吃摊？你一定猜不到，它的真实身份竟然是有史以来的第一颗人工心脏。
这个大家伙的作用是，暂时代替病人的心脏完成向全身输送血液的功能，直到病人自己的心脏恢复正常。这台机器被称为梅奥人工心肺机，它发明于1957年，是现代心脏搭桥机的前身。
现在，这台梅奥人工心肺机保存在位于华盛顿的史密森学会美国国家历史博物馆里，最近刚刚提供了网上查看功能，方便不能到华盛顿实地观摩的人们在线查看。
It might look more like something a street vendor would serve up food from, but, believe it or not, this is one of the first ever artificial hearts.
This monstrous lump of metal was designed to temporarily stand in for a human heart, pumping blood around the body until a patient's actual ticker was once more up to the job. Known as the Mayo-Gibbon heart-lung machine, it was built in 1957 and is considered the forefather of modern heart bypass machines.
It's now housed at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History in Washington D.C., and has just been made available to view online. Which means you'll have to provide your own mustard.
