In this Book
- Pioneers of Cardiac Surgery
- Book
- 2008
- Published by: Vanderbilt University Press
summary
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 "blue baby operation," 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.
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-xi
- Significant Events in Cardiac Surgery
- pp. xvii-xviii
- The Early Years
- William P. Longmire, MD
- pp. 63-73
- Viking O. Bjork, MD
- pp. 74-82
- C. Walton Lillehei, MD, PhD
- pp. 83-99
- Richard A. DeWall, MD
- pp. 100-111
- William H. Muller, MD
- pp. 112-124
- Harris B. Shumacker Jr., MD
- pp. 125-137
- Geoffrey Wooler, FRCS
- pp. 138-147
- Michael E. DeBakey, MD
- pp. 148-158
- C. Rollins Hanlon, MD
- pp. 159-172
- Frank C. Spencer, MD
- pp. 173-184
- Henry T. Bahnson, MD
- pp. 185-193
- Congenital Heart Surgery
- Judson G. Randolph, MD
- pp. 197-209
- Anthony R. C. Dobell, MD
- pp. 210-220
- Paul A. Ebert, MD
- pp. 221-231
- Harvey W. Bender, MD
- pp. 232-243
- Denton A. Cooley, MD
- pp. 244-255
- J. Alex Haller Jr., MD
- pp. 256-268
- Valvular Heart Surgery
- Albert Starr, MD
- pp. 271-284
- Donald N. Ross, FRCS
- pp. 285-296
- George J. Magovern, MD
- pp. 297-307
- Robert B. Wallace, MD
- pp. 308-315
- Francis Robicsek, MD, PhD
- pp. 316-321
- Alain F. Carpentier, MD, PhD
- pp. 322-331
- Vincent L. Gott, MD
- pp. 332-340
- Alden H. Harken, MD
- pp. 341-353
- Coronary Artery Surgery
- René G. Favaloro, MD
- pp. 357-368
- George E. Green, MD
- pp. 369-379
- W. Dudley Johnson, MD
- pp. 380-390
- John L. Ochsner, MD
- pp. 391-404
- Floyd D. Loop, MD
- pp. 405-411
- Thomas J. Fogarty, MD
- pp. 412-423
- Transplant—Artificial Heart
- Norman E. Shumway,MD, PhD
- pp. 427-439
- Christiaan Barnard, MD, PhD
- pp. 440-445
- James D. Hardy, MD
- pp. 446-459
- Sir Terence English, FRCS
- pp. 460-468
- William C. DeVries, MD
- pp. 469-485
- Arrhythmia Surgery
- William C. Sealy, MD
- pp. 489-504
- James R. Jude, MD
- pp. 505-520
- Illustration Credits
- p. 553
Additional Information
ISBN
9780826592439
Related ISBN(s)
9780826515940
MARC Record
OCLC
823170308
Pages
648
Launched on MUSE
2012-12-20
Language
English
Open Access
No