Mütter Museum of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia | Mitral Commissurotomy Knife and a Hundred Year Old Teaching Tool @theMutterMuseum | Uploaded March 2012 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
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Every Thursday The Curator of the Mütter Museum of the College of physicians of Philadelphia introduces a mystery object for you to guess what it is. Last week's mystery object was a mitral commissurotomy knife. It was designed to enter into a person's beating heart and carefully slice open a stuck mitral valve. This was invented before the heart and lung machine and is still used today in areas that do not have access to a heart and lung machine.

Hints for This weeks Mystery object:
-Teaching tool
-Over 100 years old
-Hallow
-Designed to be tilted back

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