A Concise History of Heart Surgery
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Nan
Thanks for posting ...it was indeed interesting.
Stretch, i don't know if you ever saw them, but both "partners of the heart"
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/partners/legacy/l_colleagues_blalock.html
and Something the Lord Made are both really good movies about the first surgery for Congenital Heart Defects. I believe You can rent either one, and i really recomend them. Lyn
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/partners/legacy/l_colleagues_blalock.html
and Something the Lord Made are both really good movies about the first surgery for Congenital Heart Defects. I believe You can rent either one, and i really recomend them. Lyn
Wise
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Lynlw said:
Thanks for the links Stretch. Very interesting reading!
Several vr members have seen and recommended "Something the Lord Made". It is an excellent movie. I'll have to check into "Partners of the Heart"; haven't heard of that one.
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CathyK.
Stretch - thanks for the info. Very interesting. How are you feeling?
StretchL
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Much better, thanks, Kathy!
I'm still not 100%... definitely weak from the anemia, but getting better each day!
I've even taken an assignment for Sunday... we'll see how it goes!
I'm still not 100%... definitely weak from the anemia, but getting better each day!
I've even taken an assignment for Sunday... we'll see how it goes!
Stretch:
Thanks for posting. Perhaps a link to this can get added to our Resources section?
Here's a link to a textbook on history of cardiac surgery.
http://cardiacsurgery.ctsnetbooks.org/cgi/content/full/2/2003/3?ck=nck
Thanks for posting. Perhaps a link to this can get added to our Resources section?
Here's a link to a textbook on history of cardiac surgery.
http://cardiacsurgery.ctsnetbooks.org/cgi/content/full/2/2003/3?ck=nck
StretchL said:Much better, thanks, Kathy!
I'm still not 100%... definitely weak from the anemia, but getting better each day!
I've even taken an assignment for Sunday... we'll see how it goes!
I'm glad you are feeling better, and hope the shoot is close to home so you don't wear yourself out,
I think sat you should rent those movies and after the shoot get cozy w/ your family and watch the movies, heck it's getting so cold here we can soon keep the fire place going,
mtkayak
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I highly recommend reading the book "King of Hearts" if you like the history stuff. The book is about one of the pioneers of OHS. Dr. Walt Lillihei as mentioned in that segment. He lost lots of patients before he got it right with the Heart/Lung machine but he was not discouraged like other Surgeons. They actually could only operate 20 minutes or so with hypothermia or cross circulation method to do VSD repairs. Amazing how far we have come.
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CathyK.
Glad to hear you are feeling better. Don't over-do!!
thanks for that stretch,
glad to hear you are feeling better... pls try to take it a little easy!!!!
be well,
sylvia
glad to hear you are feeling better... pls try to take it a little easy!!!!
be well,
sylvia
DeWayne
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Interesting stuff. I have always known how lucky I was to be born when I was. I am one of those early early heart lung people.
"It wasn't until 1958, when a system that involved bubbling blood was perfected, that "heart-lung" machines came of age"
My operation on the heart lung machine came in March of 1959. My first doctors and the ones that discovered my bicuspid aortic valve were the heart doctors at the University of Minnesota, I was born in Minnesota, lucky I guess.
I know from a conversation I had with my original surgeon back in 1984 that a lot of people died from the operation and my being 5 years old was not something they really wanted to have to deal with in this operation. But they determined if they waited till I was bigger I might not be around for it.
I had my surgery in Detroit at Henry Ford Hospital, one of the few hospitals at the time with a heart lung machine. My Surgeon Dr. Conrad Lam was one of the big heart surgery pioneers in the 50s.
When my surgery was done they had not yet had the idea they could replace a valve, just that they could attempt to repair it. So mine was "repaired". I managed to last 47 years on that repair.
I have never taken for granted tomorrow is another day. My Motto has always been any day you wake up it a good day.
Sometimes it is a bit scary to see how lucky one was to be in the right place at the right time in history to make it through something like this!!!!
I was told by my parents at one time that there were only like 5 hospitals in the US at the time that could do this operation and that I was one of the first 50 people to have it. I don't know how accurate that was, but I it definitely has shaped my life, I always see the positive in things knowing that I probably would not be here today if not for the things that took place back then.
"It wasn't until 1958, when a system that involved bubbling blood was perfected, that "heart-lung" machines came of age"
My operation on the heart lung machine came in March of 1959. My first doctors and the ones that discovered my bicuspid aortic valve were the heart doctors at the University of Minnesota, I was born in Minnesota, lucky I guess.
I know from a conversation I had with my original surgeon back in 1984 that a lot of people died from the operation and my being 5 years old was not something they really wanted to have to deal with in this operation. But they determined if they waited till I was bigger I might not be around for it.
I had my surgery in Detroit at Henry Ford Hospital, one of the few hospitals at the time with a heart lung machine. My Surgeon Dr. Conrad Lam was one of the big heart surgery pioneers in the 50s.
When my surgery was done they had not yet had the idea they could replace a valve, just that they could attempt to repair it. So mine was "repaired". I managed to last 47 years on that repair.
I have never taken for granted tomorrow is another day. My Motto has always been any day you wake up it a good day.
Sometimes it is a bit scary to see how lucky one was to be in the right place at the right time in history to make it through something like this!!!!
I was told by my parents at one time that there were only like 5 hospitals in the US at the time that could do this operation and that I was one of the first 50 people to have it. I don't know how accurate that was, but I it definitely has shaped my life, I always see the positive in things knowing that I probably would not be here today if not for the things that took place back then.
