Object Details
- Description
- The Ablaza-Morse Atraumatic Rib Approximator was devised by Sariel Ablaza (d. 2019), a surgeon from the Philippines who practiced at the Albert Einstein Medical Center and taught at the Medical College of Pennsylvania; and Dryden Phelps Morse (1924-2002), a heart surgeon who practiced in New Jersey and Philadelphia; and Gumersindo Blanco (1922-2007), a surgeon from Puerto Rico who practiced in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Puerto Rico.
- Ref: Sariel G. G. Ablaza, Dryden P. Morse, and Gumersindo Blanco, “Atraumatic Rib Approximator,” The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2 (1966): 868-869.
- Sariel Ablaza, “Apparatus and Method for Surgical Repair of Dissecting Thoracic Aneurisms and the Like,” U.S. Patent 4,190,909 (March 4, 1980).
- “Sariel G. G. Ablaza, M.D. Prominent Thoracic Surgeon,” in Isabelo T. Crisostomo, Filipino Achievers in the USA and Canada: Profiles in Excellence (Farmington Hills, MI., 1996), pp. 197-202.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- associated dates
- 1983 10 / 1983 10
- Credit Line
- Gift of Pilling Weck
- Physical Description
- metal, stainless steel (overall material)
- Measurements
- average spatial: 8 cm x 15.2 cm x 2.6 cm; 3 1/8 in x 6 in x 1 in
- overall: 1 1/8 in x 6 in x 3 in; 2.8575 cm x 15.24 cm x 7.62 cm
- Object Name
- Approximator
- approximator, rib
- surgical instrument
- Other Terms
- Approximator; Grasping and Fixating Instruments
