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Pioneers of Cardiac Surgery
William S. Stoney
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Description for Pioneers of Cardiac Surgery
Hardcover. Heart operations are quite common and relatively low-risk, but in the beginning it was just the opposite. This book presents a history of cardiac surgery in the words of the first generation of surgeons. It tells the unusual life stories of the surgeons and professional and institutional rivalries. Num Pages: 648 pages, 68 illustrations, index, references. BIC Classification: MBX; MNB; MNH. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 275 x 198 x 35. Weight in Grams: 1876.
This book presents a history of cardiac surgery in the words of the first generation of surgeons.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, active between 1940 and 1985, who 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 ... Read more
This book presents a history of cardiac surgery in the words of the first generation of surgeons.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, active between 1940 and 1985, who 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Vanderbilt University Press United States
Number of pages
648
Condition
New
Number of Pages
648
Place of Publication
Tennessee, United States
ISBN
9780826515940
SKU
V9780826515940
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Ref
99-15
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