BT Shunt Procedure

He soon created the condition in animals, so that he work on treating it. At last he discovered a new pathway to the heart. Not too soon after a young girl named Eileen Saxon, who was close to death, was rushed into John Hopkins to try this new solution. Although Thomas had done this surgery correctly countess times it was still Blalock (who had preformed the entire surgery by him self once) who preformed the surgery. In the article it states, “Each time the surgeon was ready to make a cut or stitch into Eileen’s tiny chest, he would listen for Thomas’s instructions.” Eileen became the first human to have a successful open heart surgery. Even though Thomas made the discovery, Blalock received all of the credit from the

I put on the lead apron and walked into the operating room. I was shadowing an interventional radiologist, and although I was just watching the procedure, I was nervous. What if I faint? What if I get queasy during the surgery and have to walk out? These questions filled my mind with diffidence. But as I stood there, just a few feet from a doctor carefully maneuvering a catheter around the vasculature of the patient’s brain, I had never been more intrigued and excited. My feelings of self-doubt washed away as a flood of fascination and curiosity came over me. I watched as the doctor skillfully pulled the blockage out of the women’s brain and place it on a tray next to me. The enormity of the procedure was not lost on me. Sitting next to me

Twenty-one years ago, my parents received the devastating news that my lungs were not developing properly and as a result my mom had an induced labor. I was born as a premature baby, weighing only 3 lbs. and was placed in the care of neonatal nurses in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) for 18 days. While my mom came to visit me, she would notice how well the nurses would care for me. Though their jobs were tough, the nurses would often carry me while I was crying and would often talk me to sleep, sometimes singing lullabies.

Shortly after enrolling in college I obtained a job as an emergency department (ED) scribe. Working as a scribe challenged me to think harder about what I wanted to do in health care. It was what I witnessed during my first code that inspired me to pursue a career in medicine. A patient had come into the ER with hypertension and bradycardia. Shortly after the doctor and I had finished completing his assessment, the patient went into cardiac arrest. While I was impressed by the responsiveness and intervention of the nursing staff, my eyes, like many others in the room, were fixed on Dr. Crowder. With an unusual calmness he systematically called out orders “defibrillate…. okay, continue chest

My father’s journey and the medical care provided for him inspired me to seek a career in the

I stood with a look of wonderment as I watched the beehive of physicians, radiologists, nurses, and paramedics collaboratively save a man’s life. The scene initially appeared chaotic with scrubs flying around and doctors swarming all over, but in actuality the team was extremely single-minded—as if driven by instinct. I was amazed by the speed and conviction with which the attending doctor made his decisions; his training and experience was evident with every move. Seeing the tearful wife thank the doctor highlighted the impact of his work—his actions had saved a husband and a father. I left admiring both the competency of emergency physicians and their ability to touch lives in such a dramatic way. While my enjoyment of high school biology sparked my original inclination towards medicine, my first hand experiences in the hospital deepened my motivation and left me steadfast in my decision to become a doctor.

The Dreams and the Dilemmas is a unique video that highlights the real life work and accomplishments of nurses, physicians, and social workers performing extraordinary acts of caring and humanity towards the couples and their premature twin sons. After watching this video, I released the importance of teamwork and good communication in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit to the family. The physicians gave the couples options to choose from, even though they knew Travis was not going to make it with any of the opinions giving. And when the couples chose not to take off the life support, the physician respected that decision. He said in the video, “we will continue to do everything we doing to Travis”. They made

Beginning his article, Warraich illustrates a personal anecdote, to both establish his credibility and hook the reader. He writes, “every Thursday morning on the heart transplant service, our medical team would get a front-row seat to witness an epic battle raging under a microscope.” Warraich not

As individuals and as a group, we have worked hard, we toiled, we endured, and we have come out better, with more passion and more confidence than when we began. We have survived all the different rotations, shifts, and calls, the sleepless nights and the chaos and adrenaline of the emergency room duty and the rigorous training examinations. I believe we are all proud to have made it to this day. In all sincerity, today represents a landmark achievement for each of us and our families. It is to our loved ones and all those who encouraged us through this long journey from preschool through residency that we owe our deepest thanks. The encouragement from family, friends, colleagues, faculty, staff and strangers have played a vital role in our success.

One brave doctor asked if he would look at my niece’s chart. He took a look and asked what she was still doing at that hospital. Without knowing it the hospital was giving her the wrong treatment and not enough trauma treatment. My niece was flown out of that hospital to what is now Banner University Hospital. A few hours later my niece had woken up and we could see that the treatment was already working (the iron lung) among other

Vivien Thomas was born on August 29th, 1910. He is an African-American surgical technician. He is known for developing procedures that were used to treat blue baby syndrome in the 1940s. However, Vivien wasn’t alone on this. He was an assistant to Alfred Blalock. They worked at an experimental animal laboratory at Vanderbilt University. It was in Nashville, Tennessee. Due to the circumstances of racism at the time, he was classified as just a janitor. But, Alfred Blalock ignored that fact and had Vivien help him with surgery on the dogs. Vivien did surgeries while receiving the pay of someone who does janitor work. People were always surprised seeing Vivien walk around the building wearing a white lab coat. Before they did any work with blue

This article is about Kelly Perkins, who has a disease of the heart. After she received a heart transplant. Then she climbed to the top of Half Dome Mountain in Yosemite, and she became the first heart transplant, that came to the top of Half Dome Mountain. Finally, she stayed at the top of mountain with proud, and her husband gave a bracelet for the

Thomas surgically created in dogs the heart malformations that caused the blue baby syndrome (deformities of the heart that prevented much of their blood from reaching their lungs). He worked with Dr. Blalock to develop revolutionary shunt which attenuated these deformities. And in 1944, with association of Dr. Helen Taussig, they designed and carried out the first blue baby operations.

At a time when it was popular practice for kids growing up in my country to aspire to become doctors, lawyers and engineers, for no rational reasons owing to naiveté that comes with such tender ages, I had known I wanted to save lives. I just didn’t know in what capacity it would be. I can safely say that I grew up faster than most children my age, I had known what it meant to lose a father at six, I had seen an aunt die of what they said was cancer at ten. I had also known the frustration of not being able to do anything to save both. And of course, I couldn’t have. I am a grown man now, equipped with the rationality that comes with education, and most importantly the informed will to save the world. And I have found an important tool in Medical Physics.

My topic will be based off the Cardiovascular System. I am going to be writing about the first person who got an artificial heart transplant. Barney Clark, a Seattle dentist struggling with congestive heart failure, couldn’t walk from his bedroom to the bathroom. An artificial heart implant was his only option because doctors determined that he was way too sick for a heart transplant. This artificial heart for human implantation is known as the Jarvik 7, which was named after Dr. Robert Jarvik. He has been building these hearts for a while making artificial hearts as early as his school days. Dr. Jarvik attended the University of Utah and started studying artificial organs in 1971. His mentor was Willem Johan Kolff, The Jarvik 7 was the first artificial heart to be designed and used for permeant use, and it had a heart-shaped pump that they put in the patient.