This is a surgery in which the patient's heart is opened and surgery is performed on the internal structures of the heart.
It was soon discovered by Dr. Wilfred G. Bigelow of the University of Toronto that the repair of intracardiac pathologies was better done with a bloodless and motionless environment, which means that the heart should be stopped and drained of blood. The first successful intracardiac correction of a congenital heart defect using hypothermia was performed by Dr. C. Walton Lillehei and Dr. F. John Lewis at the University of Minnesota on September 2, 1952. The following year, Soviet surgeon Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Vishnevskiy conducted the first cardiac surgery under local anesthesia.
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Thanks for the information.Yes heart surgeries have gone a long way and now the option of open heart surgery and even the patient being awake through the surgery says so much about advancement of the technology.
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This is an amazing research finding and I am so overwhelmed to know where the heart surgery has found it's way.There is a lot of technical as well as medical advancement in the process and it is all benefiting the heart patients.
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