Breakthrough! : how three people saved "blue babies" and changed medicine forever
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Breakthrough! : how three people saved "blue babies" and changed medicine forever
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- Breakthrough! : how three people saved "blue babies" and changed medicine forever
- Title remainder
- how three people saved "blue babies" and changed medicine forever
- Statement of responsibility
- Jim Murphy
- Subject
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- Blalock, Alfred, 1899-1964 -- Juvenile literature
- Cardiovascular system -- Surgery -- Juvenile literature
- trueHeart
- trueHeart -- Surgery
- Heart -- Surgery -- Juvenile literature
- JUVENILE NONFICTION / Biography & Autobiography / Science & Technology
- JUVENILE NONFICTION / History / United States / 20th Century
- JUVENILE NONFICTION / People & Places / United States / African American
- JUVENILE NONFICTION / Science & Nature / Anatomy & Physiology
- trueSurgeons
- Surgeons -- Maryland -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- Taussig, Helen B., (Helen Brooke), 1898-1986 -- Juvenile literature
- Thomas, Vivien T, 1910-1985 -- Juvenile literature
- trueCardiovascular system
- Language
- eng
- Summary
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- "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"--
- Award
- Notable Books for a Global Society, 2016.
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- Cataloging source
- DLC
- Dewey number
- 617/.0232
- Index
- no index present
- Intended audience
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- Middle School
- 1170
- Intended audience source
- Lexile
- LC call number
- RD27.35.T46
- LC item number
- M87 2015
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel
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- 4
- 7
- Target audience
- juvenile
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