Breakthrough!
Subtitle: how three people saved "blue babies" and changed medicine forever
By: Jim Murphy
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company; Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 129
ISBN-13: 9780547821832
Subjects: Heart; Surgery; Juvenile literature; Cardiovascular system; Surgeons
Description: In 1944 an unprecedented surgical procedure repaired the heart of a child with blue baby syndrome lack of blood oxygen caused by a congenital defect. This landmark operation opened the way for all types of open heart surgery.The team that developed it 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.
Notes: Includes index.

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