Pioneers of Cardiac Surgery (eBook)

William S. Stoney (Autor)

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2008
648 Seiten
Vanderbilt University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8265-9243-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Heart operations today are quite common and relatively low-risk, but in the beginning it was just the opposite. Cardiac operations were reserved for desperately ill patients. The author documents this dramatic transition with profiles of 38 surgeons who were active between 1940 and 1985.The profiles are edited transcripts of interviews videotaped between 1996 and 2004. They tell of the development of new techniques such as the "e;blue baby operation,"e; the first heart-lung machine, the first artificial heart valve, and the first coronary bypass operation. They also tell the unusual life stories of the surgeons and allude to professional and institutional rivalries. A particularly valuable part of the book is the author's brief history of cardiac surgery, designed to orient the reader for reading the profiles that follow.

Inhalt

ContentsAcknowledgments PrefaceSignificant Events in the Development of Cardiac Surgery A Short History of Cardiac Surgery Stab Wounds of the Heart Alexis Carrel and Charles Guthrie Trendelenburg and Pulmonary Embolectomy Mitral Stenosis in the 1920s Patent Ductus Arteriosus Coarctation of the Aorta Tetralogy of Fallot and the Blue Baby Operation World War II Post-World War II Developments (Dwight Harken and Charles Bailey) Development of the Heart-Lung Machine Lillehei and Cross Circulation DeWall and a Practical Heart-Lung Machine The Starr-Edwards Valve Coronary Artery Surgery Cardiac Transplantation Total Artificial Heart Pioneer Cardiac SurgeonsThe Early Years William P. Longmire Viking O. Björk C. Walton Lillehei Richard A. DeWall William H. Muller Harris B. Shumacker Jr. Geoffrey Wooler Michael E. DeBakey C. Rollins Hanlon Frank C. Spencer Henry T. Bahnson Congenital Heart Surgery Judson G. Randolph Anthony R. C. Dobell Paul A. Ebert Harvey W. Bender Denton A. Cooley J. Alex Haller Jr. Valvular Heart Surgery Albert Starr Donald N. Ross George J. Magovern Robert B. Wallace Francis Robicsek Alain F. Carpentier Vincent L. Gott Alden H. Harken and Dwight E. Harken Coronary Artery Surgery René G. Favaloro George E. Green W. Dudley Johnson John L. Ochsner Floyd D. Loop Thomas J. Fogarty Transplant-Artificial Heart Norman E. Shumway Christiaan Barnard James D. Hardy Sir Terence English William C. DeVries Arrhythmia Surgery Will C. Sealy James R. Jude

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.7.2008
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Chirurgie ► Herz- / Thorax- / Gefäßchirurgie
• Themenwelt: Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
• Schlagworte: Medicine • Narrative Medicine
• ISBN-10: 0-8265-9243-0 / 0826592430
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8265-9243-9 / 9780826592439