1. 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

2. Three Great Paradigm Shifts Drove Our Revolution Prior to Andreas Gruentzig
Creation of Cardiac Surgery
Development of Electrophysiology
Rx of Coronary Disease

3. 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.

4. Our Story Begins with Dwight Harken
A surgeon who tries to suture a heart wound deserves
to lose esteem of his colleagues Theodore Billroth

5. 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

6. 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

7. Three Great Paradigm Shifts Drove Our Revolution Prior to Andreas Gruentzig
Creation of Cardiac Surgery
Development of Electrophysiology
Rx of Coronary Disease

8. 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

9. Rx of Stable Coronary Disease
1st coronary angio
Favaloro & Sones
1st coronary bypass

10.            
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

11. The Past Informs theFuture: Advances on the Horizon

12. The Golden Age of Cardiology: Told in The Heart Healers
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