Pioneers of the Medical Device Industry in Minnesota Oral History Project: Interview with Richard DeWall

Titles: Pioneers of the Medical Device Industry in Minnesota Oral History Project: Interview with Richard DeWall (Supplied title)

Description: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Richard DeWall was born and attended school and college in Minnesota. He developed the bubble oxygenator, a temperature controlled oxygenator, and a capillary type oxygenator. He helped found a medical school and heart surgery program at an Ohio university. He was retired at the time of the interview. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Early life; why he chose medicine as a profession; education; choice of school; history of oxygenators; how he developed the bubble oxygenator, the capillary oxygenator, and Temptrol, a temperature controlled oxygenator; description of other oxygenators: filming oxygenator, screening oxygenator, and disk oxygenator; his relationship with Dr. C. Walton Lillehei, Dr. Richard Lillehei, Vince Gott, and Richard Varco; his association with the medical school and heart surgery program at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio; his connection with the Kaster-Lillehei heart valve.

Dates

• 10/28/1998 (Creation)

Creation

• interviewer: Rhees, David
• interviewee: DeWall, Richard

Identifiers

• Library Call Number: OH 87
• Accession Number: AV2001.104.6

Holding Type: Oral History - Interview

Project

• Oral History - Project, MHS Collection, project: 'Pioneers of the Medical Device Industry in Minnesota Oral History Project' <OH 87>

Quantity: 2 hours sound cassette 23 pages transcript

Format

• Content Category: sound recordings
• Content Category: text

Measurements

• 01:13:22 running time

Subjects