Breakthrough!: how three people saved "blue babies" and changed medicine forever

"In 1944 a groundbreaking operation repaired the congenital heart defect known as blue baby syndrome. The operation's success brought the surgeon Alfred Blalock international fame and paved the way for open-heart surgery. But the technique had been painstakingly developed by Vivien Thomas,...

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1. Verfasser: Murphy, Jim 1947- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Boston ; New York Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt [2015]
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Zusammenfassung:"In 1944 a groundbreaking operation repaired the congenital heart defect known as blue baby syndrome. The operation's success brought the surgeon Alfred Blalock international fame and paved the way for open-heart surgery. But the technique had been painstakingly developed by Vivien Thomas, Blalocks African American lab assistant, who stood behind Blalock in the operating room to give him step-by-step instructions. The stories of this medical and social breakthrough and the lives of Thomas, Blalock, and their colleague Dr. Helen Taussig are intertwined in this compelling nonfiction narrative"... - "The story of the landmark 1944 surgical procedure that repaired the heart of a child with blue baby syndrome...lack of blood oxygen caused by a congenital defect. The team that developed the procedure included a cardiologist and a surgeon, but most of the actual work was done by Vivien Thomas, an African American lab assistant who was frequently mistaken for a janitor"...
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:xiii, 129 pages illustrations 24 cm
Zielpublikum:Age 9-12
ISBN:9780547821832

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