history of cardiac surgery

Question 1

William Harvey

Answer 1

First to understand

circulation

Question 2

Frey and Gruber

Answer 2

First Film Oxygenator

Question 3

Dr. Daniel Hale Williams

Dr. Ludwig Rehn

Answer 3

• First cardiac surgery in

U S

Question 4

Dr. Ludwig Rehn

Answer 4

First successful cardiorrhaphy

Question 5

Porter-Bradley

Answer 5

Roller pump

Question 6

DeBakey

Answer 6

roller pump with tubing guides

Question 7

Dr. Alexis Carrel

Answer 7

Developed a leakproof
technique for
anastomosing blood
vessels without
constricting the
vessels or causing
thrombosis

Question 8

McLean

Answer 8

Discovered heparin to

reduce blood clotting

Question 9

Drs. Elliot Cutler and Samuel

Levine

Answer 9

Used surgical valvulotome to
surgically repair stenotic
valvular lesions

Question 10

Werner Forossmann

Answer 10

First cardiac catheterization

Question 11

Sir Alexander Fleming

Answer 11

Discovered penicillin, the first antibiotic

Question 12

Dr. Dwight Harken

Answer 12

Performed first consistently
successful elective cardiac
surgery

Question 13

Dr. Theodore Tuffier

Answer 13

Surgery on Aortic Valve

Question 14

Dr. Elliot Cutter

Answer 14

Surgery on Mitral Valve

Question 15

Dr. Alfred Blalock

Answer 15

Pulmonary shunt for blue babies

Question 16

Dr. John Lewis

Answer 16

Closure of ASD

Question 17

Dr. Charles Hufnagel

Answer 17

Valve substitute implantation

Question 18

Dr. John Gibbon

Answer 18

CPB

Question 19

Dr. Ake Senning

Answer 19

Implantable pacemaker

Question 20

Dr. Michael Debakey

Answer 20

CABG

Question 21

Dr. Christiaan Barnard

Answer 21

Cardiac transplantation

Question 22

first heart lung machine

Answer 22

autojector (1940)

Question 23

Dr. W. G. Biegelow

Answer 23

Laid the groundwork for using hypothermia as a means to accomplish cardiac surgery

Question 24

Dr. Helen Taussig, Dr. Alfred

Blalock

Answer 24

• First shunt procedure to relief cyanosis

Question 25

Dr. Arthur Vineberg

Answer 25

Pioneered myocardial revascularization

Question 26

Dr. Charles Huffnagel

Answer 26

Developed caged ball valve

Question 27

Dr. John Lewis

Answer 27

First successful operation within human heart under direct vision

Question 28

Dr. C. Walton Lillehei

Answer 28

Used cross-circulation to | successfully close a large VSD

Question 29

Dr. Dennis Melrose

Answer 29

Reported use of potassium based cardioplegia delivered to the heart to induce cardiac arrest in the lab

Question 30

Dr. Denton Cooley

Answer 30

implanted a totally artificial heart

Question 31

Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz

Answer 31

First successful use of the Intraaortic Balloon Pump

Question 32

Dr. Andrea Gruentzig

Answer 32

First angioplasty performed

Question 33

Dr.Harold Kletschka

Answer 33

first centrifugal pump

Question 34

DeWall

Answer 34

bubble oxygenator

Question 35

Who coined the term perfusionist

Answer 35

Mitchell