Michael E. DeBakey

A surgeon, DeBakey was still in medical school when he developed the roller pump, which allowed blood to be pumped without touching it. The pump became the core of the heart-lung machine, which made heart surgery possible. It didn't stop there: DeBakey co-wrote the first scientific paper linking smoking with lung cancer (1939); performed the first coronary bypass (1964); performed the first carotid endarterectomy (1953); invented the Dacron arterial graft so that aortic aneurisms could be repaired, and performed the first such surgery (1954); performed the first multiple-organ transplant (1968); and invented the mobile army surgical hospital (1945, immortalized by the book, movie and TV show M*A*S*H). He is thought by many to be "the greatest surgeon ever," said the American Medical Association. He ended up operating on at least 60,000 people, and developed techniques and equipment that has saved millions. When he was 97, he suffered an aneurism of his own aorta -- and was saved by surgeons using his surgical technique and the Dacron graft he invented. He died July 11 at 99. From This is True for 13 July 2008 Suggestions for further reading: Dr. Dean Ornish's Program for Reversing Heart Disease: The Only System Scient... by Dean Ornish Amazon Price: $7.99 Customer Review: this guy has a excellent take on healthy heart and has been researched and his methods PROVEN with patients whom are alive well and improved; and avoided heart transplants even. So it really DOES work as it DID work back then; and is STILL working fo...   Schwartz's Principles of Surgery, Ninth Edition by F. Brunicardi, Dana Andersen, Timothy Billiar, David Dunn, John Hunter, Jeffrey Matthews, Raphael E. Pollock Amazon Price: $116.84 Customer Review: The ninth updated edition of Schwartz's Principles of Surgery is a text no college-level health professional collection should be without: it packs nearly 2,000 pages of reference material from the world's foremost practitioners and instructors and c...   A Practical Approach to Cardiac Anesthesia Amazon Price: $69.15 Customer Review: Good book for cardiology, useful to have. Pretty thorough. Liked it. Could use more on TEE and links to TEE but again, a good book to have for cardiac anesthesia.   Arthritis, What Exercises Work: Breakthrough Relief For The Rest Of Your Life... by Dava Sobel, Arthur C. Klein Amazon Price: $10.19 Customer Review: Some parts of this book were good and some not so good. Part 3, 4 and 5 are good. Part Three talks about aerobic exercise and 4 and 5 give details on exercises you can do for specific body parts and in special situations. The instruct...   Manual Of Perioperative Care In Adult Cardiac Surgery Fourth Edition by Robert M. Bojar Amazon Price: $55.77 Customer Review: Essential for CT! Easy to read, well-organized. Outlines common situations for the CT patient. Describes pathophysiology of diseases well, outlines mechanisms of medications well.   Newsfeed display by CaRP

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