TY - BOOK AU - Cooper,D.K.C. TI - Open heart: the radical surgeons who revolutionized medicine SN - 9781607144908 (alk. paper) AV - RD598 .C6635 2010 U1 - 617.4/12092/2 22 PY - 2010/// CY - New York PB - Kaplan Pub. KW - Heart KW - Surgery KW - History KW - Thoracic surgeons KW - Biography KW - Thoracic Surgery KW - Cardiac Surgical Procedures KW - history KW - History, 20th Century N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Preface : men who dared to fail -- The long and rugged road : the first 2,500 years -- The first steps forward : boldness and delicacy (Robert Gross, Clarence Crafoord) -- Blue babies : the battle to save their lives (Alfred Blalock, Russell Brock) -- The seeing finger : opening obstructed valves (Charles Bailey, Dwight Harken) -- Six minutes! : hypothermia and the race against time (Wilfred Bigelow, F. John Lewis, Henry Swan) -- Far-fetched ideas : the concept of the heart-lung machine (Clarence Dennis, John Gibbon Jr., Viking Bjork, Ake Senning) -- Innovation and risk : the golden Minneapolis era (C. Walton Lillehei, Richard Varco) -- The iceman cometh : establishing the heart-lung machine (John Kirklin) -- Bionic men : artificial materials and mechanical valves (Arthur Vorhees, Charles Hufnagel, and Albert Starr) -- Life from death : human valve transplants (Donald Ross and Brian Barrett-Boyes) -- The flood gates open : surgery for coronary artery disease (Vasilii Kolesov and Rene Favaloro) -- The ultimate operation : heart transplantation (Norman Shumway, James Hardy, and Christiaan Barnard) -- In the realm of science fiction : mechanical hearts (Willem Kolff, Michael Debakey, Denton Cooley, and William Devries) -- The right stuff : those magnificent men and their heart-lung machines ER -