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John W. Kirklin  

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  • John W. Kirklin was an American cardiovascular surgeon who refined the heart-lung machine first devised by John H. Gibbon and applied it to open-heart surgery. Kirklin not only used the improved heart-lung machine in operations but also in the study of congenital heart problems. [Source: Encyclopedia of Global Health; Kirklin, John W. (1917–2004)]

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