Open heart
Subtitle: the radical surgeons who revolutionized medicine
By: David K.C. Cooper
Publisher: Kaplan Pub.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 431
ISBN-13: 9781607144908
Subjects: Thoracic surgeons; Heart; Surgery; Biography; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface : men who dared to fail; title: The long and rugged road : the first 2,500 years; title: The first steps forward : boldness and delicacy : Robert Gross and Clarence Crafoord; title: Blue babies : the battle to save their lives : Alfred Blalock and Russell Brock; title: The seeing finger : opening obstructed valves : Charles Bailey and Dwight Harken; title: Six minutes! Hypothermia and the race against time : Wilfred Bigelow, F. John Lewis, and Henry Swan; title: Far-fetched ideas : the concept of the heart-lung machine : Clarence Dennis, John Gibbon Jr., Viking Bjork, and Ake Senning; title: Innovation and risk : the golden Minneapolis era : C. Walton Lillehei and Richard Varco; title: The iceman cometh : establishing the heart-lung machine : John Kirklin; title: Bionic men : artificial materials and mechanical valves : Arthur Vorhees, Charles Hufnagel, and Albert Starr; title: Life from death : human valve transplants : Donald Ross and Brian Barratt-Boyes; title: The floodgates open : surgery for coronary artery disease : Vasilii Kolesov and Rene Favaloro; title: The ultimate operation : heart transplantation : Norman Shumway, James Hardy, and Christiaan Barnard; title: In the realm of science fiction : mechanical hearts : Willem Kolff, Michael Debakey, Denton Cooley, and William Devries; title: The right stuff : those magnificent men and their heart-lung machines.