2006-08-26 15:41:16 · 10 answers · asked by Beyonce 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
Charles drew
2006-08-26 15:44:52 · answer #1 · answered by Out and Proud 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Christiaan Neethling Barnard (November 8, 1922 – September 2, 2001) was a South African cardiac surgeon. He became famous for performing the world's first open heart transplant.
The heart was a major prize for transplant surgeons. But, as well as rejection issues the heart deteriorates within minutes of death so any operation would have to be performed at great speed. The development of the heart-lung machine was also needed. Lung pioneer James Hardy attempted a human heart transplant in 1964, but a premature failure of the recipient's heart caught Hardy with no human donor, he used a chimpanzee heart which failed very quickly. The first success was achieved December 3rd 1967 by Christiaan Barnard in Cape Town, South Africa. Louis Washkansky, the recipient, survived for eighteen days amid what many saw as a distasteful publicity circus. The media interest prompted a spate of heart transplants. Over a hundred were performed in 1968-69, but almost all the patients died within sixty days. Barnard's second patient, Philip Blaiberg, lived for 19 months.
2006-08-26 22:52:53 · answer #2 · answered by peter_lobell 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Christiaan Neethling Barnard (November 8, 1922 – September 2, 2001) was a South African cardiac surgeon. He became famous for performing the world's first open heart transplant.
2006-08-26 22:47:40 · answer #3 · answered by Bobbie 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The site listed below gives information about early open heart surgery.
But what you were probably looking for is this:
David C. Sabiston, M.D. at Duke University Medical Center performed the first coronary artery bypass graft (CABG). He didn't publish the results because even though the operation was succesful, the patient died postoperatively of an infection.
Who performed the first succesful CABG is still being debated.
Aloha
2006-08-26 22:46:51 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The first successful surgery on the heart itself, performed without any complications, was by Dr. Ludwig Rehn of Frankfurt, Germany, who repaired a stab wound to the right ventricle on September 7, 1896.
2006-08-26 22:45:57 · answer #5 · answered by Sheefa 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dr Dabakie
2006-08-26 22:51:38 · answer #6 · answered by uofsmike 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Is that a dance? Open heart surfer?
2006-08-26 22:46:36 · answer #7 · answered by da_hammerhead 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
That would have been some surgeon thousands of years ago. He was probably not successful.
2006-08-26 22:44:24 · answer #8 · answered by idiot detector 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
One of my ex-girlfriends. She tore my heart out.
2006-08-26 22:46:07 · answer #9 · answered by Eddy 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
some guy thayt was black... i forgot his name.....
2006-08-26 22:47:11 · answer #10 · answered by juan 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋