COBE LABORATORY 1976
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Channel: Historic Films Stock Footage Archive · 2013 · Education
For licensing inquiries please contact Historic Films Archive (www.historicfilms.com / [email protected]) 00:55:17 COBE LABORATORY: IRVING ENDE'S HANDS, OPENS PACKAGE CONTAINING INTRAVENOUS NEEDLE. INSERTS IT IN HIS LEG AS HE SITS BEFORE KIDNEY DIALYSIS MACHINE, NURSE HELPING. IRVING'S KIDNEYS STOPPED FUNCTIONING LIKE 25,000 OTHER YOUNG AMERICANS. 00:55:49 IRVING PLACES ON EARPHONES, LISTENS TO MUSIC AS MACHINE DETOXIFIES HIS BLOOD. A PROCEDURE UNHEARD OF 15 YEARS AGO. WASTE TOXINS WOULD HAVE ACCUMULATED IN HIS BLOOD, HE WOULD NOT HAVE SURVIVED SEVEN DAYS. HE COULD NOW LEAD A PRODUCTIVE LIFE. PAN OF MACHINE MADE BY COBE. 00:56:18 TWO OFFICIALS AT COBE LABORATORIES, COMPANY WHICH MADE DIALYSIS MACHINE, SIT IN OFFICE, CHAT. LS ZOOM OUT VIEW OF COBE'S MODERN PLANT IN DENVER, COLORADO. 00:56:30 FEMALE WORKERS WEARING STERILE GARMENTS, WORK ON PLASTIC TUBING SETS WHICH DON'T CLOT OR DAMAGE BLOOD. CU NEEDLES ATTACHED TO TUBING, USED TO DRAW BLOOD, ARE EXAMINED UNDER MICROSCOPE. 00:56:50 PILES OF TUBING SETS ARE STACKED ON RACK AND ROLLED AWAY. 00:57:13 WOMAN WEARING STERILE OUTFITS, HEAD COVERS, STAND AT TABLES, ASSEMBLE TUBE SETS IN STERILE ROOM. WOMAN TECHNICIAN INJECTS SALT SOLUTION THAT HAVE BEEN WASHED THROUGH RANDOM TUBE SETS, INTO A RABBIT'S EAR TO GUARANTEE STERILITY OF TUBES. 00:58:07 PAN OF BLOOD FLOW THROUGH TUBES FROM IRVING'S LEG AND INTO MACHINE. WHITE, BLACK, FEMALE WORKERS USING SOLDERING IRONS OTHER EQUIPMENT ASSEMBLE DIALYSIS MACHINE, FIRST BUILT BY COBE IN 1971. 00:58:46 CU MALE INSPECTOR TESTS MACHINE WITH GAUGE. OTHERS INSTALL ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS. WORKER PACKS DIALYSIS SOLUTION, MANUFACTURED BY COBE, INTO SHIPPING CARTONS. 00:59:39 FORKLIFT MOVES PALLET OF BOXED SOLUTION IN HUGE WAREHOUSE
