History in the Making: As soldiers returned from World War II, we had: No heart surgery No defibrillator No pacemaker Few drugs No CCU And no effective treatment for Congenital heart disease Valvular heart disease Coronary heart disease How we emerged from the Dark Ages of Cardiology is one of the greatest scientific stories of our times
Three Great Paradigm Shifts Drove Our Revolution Prior to Andreas Gruentzig Creation of Cardiac Surgery Development of Electrophysiology Rx of Coronary Disease
Disclosure Statement of Financial Interest I, James Forrester DO NOT have a financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with one or more organizations that could be perceived as a real or apparent conflict of interest in the context of the subject of this presentation.
Our Story Begins with Dwight Harken A surgeon who tries to suture a heart wound deserves to lose esteem of his colleagues Theodore Billroth
What the Battlefields of Europe Wrought Shrapnel Closed Heart Surgery What Happened Next? The world is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine Heart Lung machine Valvular heart surgery Cardiac transplantation Congenital heart surgery
The Complications of Heart Surgery Created The Modern Cardiology Subspecialties Claude Beck VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION OF LONG DURATION ABOLISHED BY ELECTRIC SHOCK C.S. Beck, W.H.Pritchard, H.S.Feil
Three Great Paradigm Shifts Drove Our Revolution Prior to Andreas Gruentzig Creation of Cardiac Surgery Development of Electrophysiology Rx of Coronary Disease
Cardiac Structures Prior to Surgery Surgeons Needed To See Cardiac Structures Prior to Surgery Forssmann Cournand Richards Good can exist without evil, but evil cannot exist without good. St Thomas Aquinas Catheterization Angiography Hemodynamics
Rx of Stable Coronary Disease 1st coronary angio Favaloro & Sones 1st coronary bypass
Medical Therapy of Acute Myocardial Infarction by Application of Hemodynamic Subsets James S. Forrester, M.D., George Diamond, M.D., Kanu Chatterjee M.R.C.P., and HJC Swan M.D., Ph.D. “The CCU is the single most important advance in the treatment of acute myocardial infarction.” E. Braunwald
The Past Informs theFuture: Advances on the Horizon
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