RT Book, Section
A1 Stephenson, Larry W.
A1 Baciewicz, Jr., Frank A.
A2 Cohn, Lawrence H.
A2 Adams, David H.
SR Print(0)
ID 1144148861
T1 History of Cardiac Surgery
T2 Cardiac Surgery in the Adult, 5e
YR 2017
FD 2017
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071844871
LK accesscardiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1144148861
RD 2024/04/19
AB The  development  of  major  surgery  was  retarded  for  centuries  by  a  lack  of  knowledge  and  technology.  Significantly,  the  general  anesthetics  ether  and  chloroform  were  not  developed  until  the  middle  of  the  nineteenth  century.  These  agents  made  major  surgical  operations  possible,  which  created  an  interest  in  repairing  wounds  to  the  heart,  leading  some  investigators  in  Europe  to  conduct  studies  in  the  animal  laboratory  on  the  repair  of  heart  wounds.  The  first  simple  operations  in  humans  for  heart  wounds  soon  were  reported  in  the  medical  literature.