Breakthrough!: How Three People Saved "Blue Babies" and Changed Medicine Forever
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Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0547821832
ISBN 13
9780547821832
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Publication Year
2015
Publisher
Pages
144
Description
In 1944 a groundbreaking operation repaired the congenital heart defect known as blue baby syndrome. The operation's success brought the surgeon Alfred Blalock international fame and paved the way for open-heart surgery. But the technique had been painstakingly developed by Vivien Thomas, Blalock's African American lab assistant, who stood behind Blalock in the operating room to give him step-by-step instructions. The stories of this medical and social breakthrough and the lives of Thomas, Blalock, and their colleague Dr. Helen Taussig are intertwined in this compelling nonfiction narrative. - from Amzon
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