Landmarks In Cardiac Surgery PDF

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This text, published in the profession's centenary year, traces the history of cardiac surgery from ancient times to the present, detailing clinical developments with facsimilies of the original articles, consent forms from the first heart transplant, newspaper articles, and correspondence. The text follows a set pattern, describing the historical background to each new procedure, facsimilies of the original articles, bibliography of the main clinicians, and a commentary putting each development into its historical context.

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• Hardcover: 712 pages
• Publisher: CRC Press; 1 edition (February 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1899066543
• ISBN-13: 978-1899066544
• Product Dimensions: 1.8 x 8.8 x 11 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

Landmarks In Cardiac Surgery PDF

The artificial heart implantation and the open heart surgery is one of the greatest achievements in medical sciences in the 20th century. It is a fight against the highest cause of death in the 20th century in which cardiologists and many other specialists achieved great innovations and efforts to treat. In this interesting book, Stephen Westaby is tracing the progress and the history of cardiovascular surgery from the discovery of circulation to state of technology artificial heart implantation in topical and chronological order. The book covers technical historical details concerning discovery of anatomy and physiology of the heart, discovery of cardiac diseases, the progress of treatment methods, the progress of technological methods and innovations of assistive devices for cardiac support. The book traces both technical and humanistic stories behind this progress. Stephen Westaby is a leading practicing cardiac surgeon in United Kingdom who and his team implanted an artificial assist to the longest living person with an electric heart pump.

To understand a little bit the purpose of the author in writing this book and the methods he used, we need to examine his history and biography. Professor Stephen Westaby (born in 1948) is a heart surgeon at John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, England. He won the award of Midlander of the Year in 2002. Westaby and his team performed Peter Houghton's heart operation in June 2000, implanting a Jarvik 7 artificial left ventricular assist device, a turbine pump. Peter Houghton (1938 - 2007) became the longest living person with an electric heart pump in the world (Wikipedia). From this biography, we can see that Dr. Westaby is not a specialized historian, but a clever and significant figure in surgery.