An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2024 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”
16061 entries, 14144 authors and 1947 subjects. Updated: December 10, 2024
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Development of a pump-oxygenator to replace the heart and lungs: An apparatus applicable to human patients, and application to one case.Annals of Surgery, 134, 709-721, 1951.Dennis and colleagues performed the first human cardiac operation with total heart-lung bypass. The patient was a 6-year old girl with a huge atrial septal defect. Though she did not survive, this report encouraged others to attempt open-heart surgery using various oxygenators, including modifications of the Gibbon pump oxygenator. Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link. Subjects: CARDIOVASCULAR (Cardiac) SURGERY › Congenital Heart Defects Permalink: historyofmedicineandbiology.com/id/14442 |