Narrative Highlight: Aaron Hill

At part of the 50th Anniversary meeting of ASAIO we conducted preliminary exchanges with individuals working in the field of artificial organs. The text below comes from Aaron G. Hill.

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1. Which individual or event do you attribute the greatest historical significance in the advancement of organ replacement devices or machines? Please explain why.
	C.Walton Lillihei's first cross circulation clinical procedure marked the advance for the routine use of cardiopulmonary bypass and made possible the placement of artificial internal organs in the thoracic cavity.