The_Invention_of_Surgery
FIFTEEN Surgery of the Heart In 1896, Stephen Paget, a renowned British surgeon claimed, “Surgery of the heart has probably reac ...
In 1944, Alfred Blalock, at Johns Hopkins, performed palliative treatment for a child suffering from the cardiac condition known ...
using cardiopulmonary bypass, she lived another forty-seven years before dying at age sixty-five.^2 Sadly, Gibbon’s next three p ...
after Walton Lillehei read his paper, “I suspect it’s a mistake for an old conservative surgeon to discuss this paper. I must sa ...
DeWall’s bubble oxygenator was inexpensive and reproducible, and more importantly ... worked. During the proving grounds of 1954 ...
A physiologist at the University of Minnesota had recommended that the heart team stimulate contraction of the child’s heart wit ...
bridge to normal cardiac function. In one of medical history’s great moments, Lillehei turned to the young engineer, Earl Bakken ...
outage), and when Dr. Lillehei charged Earl Bakken with developing a solution, he immediately began tinkering with an idea to pr ...
computer, and gave firm foundation for the modernization of medicine and the implant revolution. Earl Bakken designed a two-tran ...
medical electronic service company? Medtronic. It has grown into the world’s largest medical device company, with annual revenue ...
Medtronic now has a traditional request of every patient who has benefited from one of their devices, a sense of obligation to “ ...
experimental procedure in 1955 to a standard treatment technique in less than a dozen years.”^17 Any operation into the thorax w ...
The serendipitous discovery that visualization of the coronary arteries was possible—and not lethal—was seized upon by Sone’s su ...
“Here be dragons.”^23 It might be the only globe (or map) that actually contains that expression, but has now become a popular s ...
witness the gratefulness for the ability, over the course of a few hours, to conquer the heart and sustain life. That’s when the ...
SIXTEEN Specialization in Surgery “As I see it, the outlook in the United States has never been so hopeful ... The surgeons have ...
mixture of roller-coaster-ride anxiety and inquisitiveness over what I might find at Colorado’s “Knife and Gun Club.” I accompan ...
residents, informing us that a second ambulance has just radioed in, and will be arriving STAT with a stabbing victim. This plea ...
myself with the patient and a young nurse. I grab a pair of gloves and introduce myself. “Henry, I’m Dave Schneider, I’m a medic ...
of clothing. Job one in a trauma bay is hacking off the clothes.] As a nurse is trying to take off the Timberland boots I can te ...
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