Breakthrough how three people saved blue babies and changed medicine forever murphy jim isbn 9780547821832 kostenloser versand fur alle bucher mit versand und verkauf duch amazon. Richies picks breakthrough how three people saved blue babies and changed medicine forever by jim murphy clarion december 2015 144p isbn 978 0 547 82183 2 please help me mend my broken heart and let me live again barry robin and maurice gibb 1971 it wasnt only that the operation was very complex and risky the surgery he dr blalock was about to perform on eileens struggling heart had never been done on a human before let alone one so tiny or frail . Breakthrough how three people saved blue babies and changed medicine forever is murphys latest book and is as interesting and well researched as his other non fiction books this is an inside look at the first heart surgery a breakthrough that has impacted the lives of thousands since it was first pioneered. Babies born with heart defects that affected the flow of oxygen were called blue babies because their extremities would be blue instead of a healthy pink cardiac surgery was not something doctors even considered as the heart was a sacred organ and to cut into it seemed wrong that all changed in the 1940s at johns hopkins medical center. How three people saved blue babies and changed medicine forever jim murphy in 1944 a groundbreaking operation repaired the congenital heart defect known as blue baby syndrome