Pioneers of Cardiac Surgery

William S. Stoney

Description

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 who were active between 1940 and 1985.

The profiles are edited transcripts of interviews videotaped between 1996 and 2004. They 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 professional and institutional rivalries. A particularly valuable part of the book is the author's brief history of cardiac surgery, designed to orient the reader for reading the profiles that follow.

Sujets

• Médecine
• Médecine Générale
• Medical
• Health
• History

Informations

• Publié par: Vanderbilt University Press
• Date de parution: 28 juillet 2008
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780826592439
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 4 Mo

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Pioneers of Cardiac Surgery William S. Stoney, MD

Pioneers of Cardiac Surgery

Pioneers of Cardiac Surgery William S. Stoney, MD

Vanderbîlt Unîversîty Press• NasHvîlle

© 2008 Vanderbîlt Unîversîty Press All rights reserved • First Edition 2008

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is book is printed on acid-free paper made from 30% post-consumer recycled content. Manufactured in the United States of America Desîgned by Darîel Mayer

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Stoney, William S., 1928– Pioneers of cardiac surgery / William S. Stoney. — 1st ed.  p. ; cm. ISBN 978-0-8265-1594-0 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Heart—Surgery—History. 2. Heart surgeons— Interviews. 3. Heart surgeons—Biography. I. Title. [DNLM: 1. Cardiac Surgical Procedures—Biography. 2. Cardiac Surgical Procedures—Interview. 3. Cardiac Surgical Procedures—history. 4. History, 19th Century. 5. History, 20th Century. WZ 112.5.C2 S881p 2007] RD598.S789 2007 617.4'12059—dc22 2007032190

For Marîan Tîey Stoney

Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

Significant Events in Cardiac Surgery

A Short History

of Cardiac Surgery

The Early Years William P. Longmire, MD Viking O. Björk, MD C. Walton Lillehei, MD, PhD Richard A. DeWall, MD William H. Muller, MD Harris B. Shumacker Jr., MD Georey Wooler, FRCS Michael E. DeBakey, MD C. Rollins Hanlon, MD Frank C. Spencer, MD Henry T. Bahnson, MD

Congenital Heart Surgery Judson G. Randolph, MD Anthony R. C. Dobell, MD Paul A. Ebert, MD Harvey W. Bender, MD Denton A. Cooley, MD J. Alex Haller Jr., MD

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Valvular Heart Surgery Albert Starr, MD Donald N. Ross, FRCS George J. Magovern, MD Robert B. Wallace, MD Francis Robicsek, MD, PhD Alain F. Carpentier, MD, PhD Vincent L. Gott, MD Alden H. Harken, MD

Coronary Artery Surgery René G. Favaloro, MD George E. Green, MD W. Dudley Johnson, MD John L. Ochsner, MD Floyd D. Loop, MD omas J. Fogarty, MD

Transplant—Artificial Heart Norman E. Shumway, MD, PhD Christiaan Barnard, MD, PhD James D. Hardy, MD Sir Terence English, FRCS William C. DeVries, MD

Arrhythmia Surgery William C. Sealy, MD James R. Jude, MD

Index

ïustratîon Credîts

271 285 297 308 316 322 332 341

357 369 380 391 405 412

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489 505

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Acknowledgments

is began as a project to interview some of the îrst-generation cardiac surgeons and to record the interviews on videotape for the Special Collections of the Eskind Medical School Library at Vanderbilt. It was sup- ported by a grant from the Department of Cardiac and oracic Surgery of Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. Dr. Harvey Bender was the department chairman and made a number of suggestions as to partici- pants and management of the grant. After his retirement, the grant was administrated by his successor, Dr. John Byrne. is grant made it possible to use professional video photographers for recording and editing the various interviews. Additional support was provided by Cardiovascular Surgery Associ- ates at St. omas Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee, who supplied oce space and a variety of other services during the prepara- tion of the manuscript, and for their gener- ous support I am grateful.  Eventually it became apparent that these interviews would be more accessible if published as a book. In the beginning I was somewhat intimidated by the time and com- mitment necessary to convert interviews with thirty-eight cardiac surgeons into a manu- script. Without the enthusiasm, encourage- ment, and support of my wife, Marian, it would not have happened. She talked me into starting and inspired me to înish.

 Early in the process of editing the audio- tapes into a more readable narrative format, I enlisted the assistance of my daughter, Eliza- beth Shannon Stoney, BA, MFA. She worked an entire summer editing and retyping the interviews and at the same time preserv- ing the conversational style of the original recordings. She is the major editor of this book.  Robert D. Collins, MD, the John L. Shapiro Professor of Pathology at Vanderbilt, is one of the most senior and most revered faculty members at Vanderbilt Medical School. He has published several scientiîc books and also a biography of Dr. Ernest Goodpasture, plus a history of the origins of Vanderbilt University. He has helped me with valuable advice about the process of writing and publishing through what became an almost weekly telephone conference. He was the îrst person to review and evaluate the manuscript, and his help and cheerful encouragement has led to the completion of the project.  I asked several of my colleagues and îsh- ing companions to read the manuscript and to make suggestions. ey each took this se- riously and added a number of suggestions as to format, facts, style, and some stories from the past that were better kept in oral form rather than in print. ose readers were: William C. Alford, MD; Harvey W. Bender,

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