Introduction

The c p b circulates blood and oxygen throughout the body during surgery, essentially acting as a temporary replacement for one's heart and lungs. The device was created by an austrian german physiologist named maximilian von frey in 18 85. In may of that year he attended a conference where he showed off what he'd been working on,. He had created his own heart lung machine, which he called the autojector. When he hooked up an organ, it would extract the blood, warm it in a glass container, oxygenate it and then pump it back into the body. Except he didn't do this with a heart or a pair of lungs - he used a dog's