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A Wangensteen suction apparatus is a modified siphon that maintains constant negative pressure. Used on a duodenal tube, it relieves gastric and intestinal distention caused by the retention of fluid.[1] It was first created by Owen Harding Wangensteen (1898–1981), the Chief of Surgery at the University of Minnesota.[2][3] His novel approach to the most important cause of death during gastrointestinal surgery has since been credited with saving more than one hundred thousand lives.[4]
The Wangensteen apparatus is featured in the first half of "Good Bye, Radar," a two-part episode from the eighth season of the television series M*A*S*H. When the camp's electric generator breaks down, the doctors assemble a device from kitchen and surgical supplies to drain fluid from a patient's abdomen. [5]
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