Sergei Brukhonenko

Sergei Sergeyevich Brukhonenko (Russian: Сергей Сергеевич Брюхоненко, 1890–1960) was a Soviet scientist during the Stalinist era. Brukhonenko's research was vital to the development of open-heart procedures in Russia. He was one of the leaders of the Research Institute of Experimental Surgery, where Professor A. A. Vishnevsky performed the first Soviet open-heart operation in 1957.

Brukhonenko is primarily remembered for his development of the autojektor, a primitive heart and lung machine. The device was used with mixed results in a series of experiments with canines during the late 1930s, which can be seen in the film Experiments in the Revival of Organisms. While some today speculate that the film is a re-staging of the procedures, the experiments themselves were well documented,^{[citation needed]} and resulted in Brukhonenko being posthumously awarded the prestigious Lenin Prize.

See also

• Experiments in the Revival of Organisms

External links

• Konstantinov, Igor E.; Alexi-Meskishvili, Vladimir V. (2000). "Sergei S. Brukhonenko: the development of the first heart-lung machine for total body perfusion". Annals of Thoracic Surgery 69 (3): 962–966. http://ats.ctsnetjournals.org/cgi/content/full/69/3/962. 
• Experiments in the Revival of Organisms at the Internet Archive (public domain)
• (German) Information and patents related to the autojektor

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