The first ‘Scribner shunt’ was implanted in the arm of a Boeing machinist
On Mar. 9, 1960, Dr. Belding Scribner implanted the first Scribner Shunt in the arm of Clyde Shields a Boeing machinist in Seattle.
Scribner joined the UW faculty in 1951 and developed the prototype shunt for the U-shaped Teflon tube with Wayne Quinton, an instrument builder, that is now known as the ‘Scribner Shunt.’
With the Scribner Shunt it was no longer necessary to make new incisions each time a patient underwent dialysis.
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Source: American Society of Nephrology
Credit: Photo: Scribner Shunt. Courtesy: University of Washington Department of Medicine.
