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Breakthrough! : how three people saved "blue babies" and changed medicine forever

Title: Breakthrough! : how three people saved "blue babies" and changed medicine forever / Jim Murphy.
Author: Murphy, Jim, 1947-2022
Publication: Boston : Clarion Books, [2015]

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Request for On-site Use Request Scan Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.	Text	Use in library	Sc E 17-416	Schomburg Center - Research & Reference
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Description

xiii, 129 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"In 1944 a groundbreaking operation repaired the congenital heart defect known as blue baby syndrome. The operation's success brought the surgeon Alfred Blalock international fame and paved the way for open-heart surgery. But the technique had been painstakingly developed by Vivien Thomas, Blalocks African American lab assistant, who stood behind Blalock in the operating room to give him step-by-step instructions. The stories of this medical and social breakthrough and the lives of Thomas, Blalock, and their colleague Dr. Helen Taussig are intertwined in this compelling nonfiction narrative"--
"The story of the landmark 1944 surgical procedure that repaired the heart of a child with blue baby syndrome--lack of blood oxygen caused by a congenital defect. The team that developed the procedure included a cardiologist and a surgeon, but most of the actual work was done by Vivien Thomas, an African American lab assistant who was frequently mistaken for a janitor"--

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Call Number

Sc E 17-416

ISBN

LCCN

2015013601

OCLC

898052980

Author

Murphy, Jim, 1947-2022, author.

Title

Breakthrough! : how three people saved "blue babies" and changed medicine forever / Jim Murphy.

Publisher

Boston : Clarion Books, [2015]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Audience

Age 9-12.

Audience

Middle School.

1170 Lexile

Research Call Number

Sc E 17-416

JFE 16-780