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Pamela Schmidt was the third patient to undergo open heart surgery using the technique of controlled cross circulation at the University of Minnesota Medical Center in 1954. Pamela and her parents participated in the public announcement of the…

The method of controlled cross circulation for open heart surgery was announced to the public at a University of Minnesota press conference on April 30, 1954. William T. Harris, Jr., director of the University News Service, organized the media…

Mohamed Nazih Zuhdi (1925- ) was a medical fellow in surgery at the University of Minnesota from 1956-1957. In 1957 he became a member of the faculty of the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine. He performed the first open heart surgery in…

George Schimert (1918-2000) was a medical fellow (1956), research assistant (1956-1957), fellow specialist (1957-1958), assistant professor for the Seoul National University of Korea Cooperative Project, and research fellow (1960) in surgery at the…

Denton A. Cooley (1920- ) received his medical training at Johns Hopkins University where he obtained a doctor of medicine degree in 1944. While at Johns Hopkins, Cooley assisted Dr. Alfred Blalock in the first successful insertion of a…

Antifoam A, a substance made by the Dow Corning Corporation, was used in the operation of the DeWall Bubble Oxygenator. The substance, when coated along the walls of the debubbling chamber of the oxygenator unit, helped to dissipate bubbles…

Antifoam A, a substance made by the Dow Corning Corporation, was used in the operation of the DeWall Bubble Oxygenator. The substance, when coated along the walls of the debubbling chamber of the oxygenator unit, helped to dissipate bubbles…

Morse J Shapiro (1893-1968) received a bachelor of science (1915) and a doctor of medicine (1917) from the University of Minnesota.
Following his service in the army from 1917-1919, Shapiro became a public school physician in Minneapolis. In 1922,…

Morse J Shapiro (1893-1968) received a bachelor of science (1915) and a doctor of medicine (1917) from the University of Minnesota. Following his service in the army from 1917-1919, Shapiro became a public school physician in Minneapolis.
In 1922,…

After the method of controlled cross circulation was made public on April 30, 1954, requests came in from members of the medical community to come to Minnesota to observe the method during an operation. The Department of Surgery regularly received…

The Cardiovascular Training Program was established at the University of Minnesota with a grant by the National Institutes of Health in July of 1956. The program funded surgical fellowships for trainees to learn clinical intracardiac procedures…

Surgeons from around the world visited the University Hospitals to receive training in the innovations for open heart surgery established by the surgeons at the University of Minnesota.

Surgeons from around the world visited the University Hospitals to receive training in the innovations for open heart surgery established by the surgeons at the University of Minnesota.

Surgeons from around the world visited the University Hospitals to receive training in the innovations for open heart surgery established by the surgeons at the University of Minnesota.

Paul Zoll of Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, developed external cardiac pacing.

Paul Zoll of Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, developed external cardiac pacing.

In 1955, C. Walton Lillehei began to administer a new drug named Isuprel to treat patients that developed heart block following an open heart surgery.

In 1955, C. Walton Lillehei began to administer a new drug named Isuprel to treat patients that developed heart block following an open heart surgery.

In the summer of 1941, 10 seminars were held on the subject of the heart and circulation by the Department of Surgery. The seminars were held at 4:00 p.m. in Room 318 of Millard Hall.

The disposable sheet oxygenator, a modification of the DeWall Bubble Oxygenator, was manufactured commercially by Baxtor Laboratories.

Dr. Gilbert Campbell and Norman Crisp developed a method of circulation by-pass through the use of an excised dog lung which acted as blood oxygenator during open heart surgery. The "biological oxygenator," was used in 15 clinical operations.

Following the public announcement of the method of controlled cross circulation for open heart surgery on April 30, 1954, Cosmopolitan magazine wrote a feature article that featured Pamela Schmidt, the cured patient introduced at the press…

Following the public announcement of the method of controlled cross circulation for open heart surgery on April 30, 1954, Cosmopolitan magazine wrote a feature article that featured Pamela Schmidt, the cured patient introduced at the press…

This pamphlet was produced by the Minnesota Heart Association (established 1947) to promote awareness of heart disease.

On January 30, 1957, the surgical team of C. Walton Lillehei, William Weirich, and Vincent Gott successfully implanted a myocardial electrode on a patient's heart tissue, which was connected by wire to a Grass Physiological Stimulator, that provided…

The Sigmamotor pump was used during open heart surgery to pump blood through polyvinyl tubing from a patient to a donor or artificial oxygenator while the heart was being operated on.

The Sigmamotor pump was used during open heart surgery to pump blood through polyvinyl tubing from a patient to a donor or artificial oxygenator while the heart was being operated on.

Controlled cross circulation was a method of open heart surgery devised by C. Walton Lillehei, Herbert Warden, and Morley Cohen in the research laboratories of the Department of Surgery at the University of Minnesota. During the operation, a donor…

A form used to track the maintenance of the Sigmamotor pump used to pump blood during open heart surgery.

Controlled cross circulation was a method of open heart surgery devised by C. Walton Lillehei, Herbert Warden, and Morley Cohen in the research laboratories of the Department of Surgery at the University of Minnesota. During the operation, a donor…

Controlled cross circulation was a method of open heart surgery devised by C. Walton Lillehei, Herbert Warden, and Morley Cohen in the research laboratories of the Department of Surgery at the University of Minnesota. During the operation, a donor…

Herbert E. Warden (1920-2002), was a Medical Fellow and Clinical Instructor of Surgery at the University of Minnesota from 1951-1960. Warden, along with Morley Cohen, C. Walton Lillehei, and Richard Varco formed the first surgical team to perform a…

Controlled cross circulation was a method of open heart surgery devised by C. Walton Lillehei, Herbert Warden, and Morley Cohen in the research laboratories of the Department of Surgery at the University of Minnesota. During the operation, a donor…

Earl Bakken collaborated with C. Walton Lillehei in 1957 to create a battery-operated transistorized pacemaker for use in the treatment of heart block.

This correspondence describes the administrative details of providing Medtronic pacemakers to patients at the University Hospitals.

A blank form that was used to record the details of open heart surgery performed using the DeWall Bubble Oxygenator.

The abbreviations IVC and SVC refer to the inferior and superior venae cavae, two large veins that return deoxygenated blood from…

Herbert E. Warden (1920-2002), was a Medical Fellow and Clinical Instructor of Surgery at the University of Minnesota from 1951-1960.

Warden, along with Morley Cohen, C. Walton Lillehei, and Richard Varco formed the first surgical team to…

Leonard Engel wrote The Operation, "A minute-by-minute account of a heart operation--and the story of medicine and surgery that led up to it." The book, which profiles the surgical procedures devised by C. Walton Lillehei and others at the University…

Antifoam A, a substance made by the Dow Corning Corporation, was used in the operation of the DeWall Bubble Oxygenator. The substance, when coated along the walls of the debubbling chamber of the oxygenator unit, helped to dissipate bubbles…

Clarence Dennis was a professor of surgery at the University of Minnesota until 1951 when he accepted the position of the head of the Department of Surgery at the State University of New York Medical Center at New York City. Dennis began work on a…

A Civil Service Personnel Requisition was the official employment paperwork for positions classed as Civil Service at the University of Minnesota. This requisition is for the position of a Junior Scientist to operate the Chemistry section of the…

The battery-operated transistorized pacemaker for the treatment of heart block was developed in the winter of 1957-1958 by Earl Bakken of Medtronic, Inc.

C. Walton Lillehei responded to a letter A.F. Crumley, Superintendent of the San Diego County General Hospital, sent to him regarding the use of hypothermia for open heart surgery and the purchase of a hypothermia blanket and respirator. In this…

F. John Lewis lead the first surgical team to perform a successful open heart surgery in a dry field under direct vision using hypothermia. The operation was performed on September 2, 1952 at the University of Minnesota.

C. Walton Lillehei wrote to J. Richard R. Bobb, Chief of Staff of the Veterans Administration Hospital in Long Beach, California in response to Bobb's letter of October 14, 1966 in which he inquired about the expense of open heart surgery.

J. Richard R. Bobb, Chief of Staff at Veterans Administration Hospital in Long Beach, California wrote to C. Walton Lillehei regarding the costs associated with open heart surgery.

Following the reports of the first successful controlled cross circulation operation in 1954, surgeons from all over the world visited the University of Minnesota to observe the procedure performed by Dr. C. Walton Lillehei and his surgical…

In 1952, engineer Alan Belgard and cardiologist Paul Zoll designed an external defibrillator and pacemaker which was sold commercially by the Electrodyne Company of Norwood, Massachusetts. The unit was comprised of an electrocardiograph to monitor…

Following a power outage in Minneapolis on October 31, 1957, the need for a portable battery-operated pacemaker for patients with post-operative heart block became imperative. To treat heart block - a condition in which sutures placed within the…

The University of Minnesota Department of Surgery purchased the refrigeration blankets and other apparatus used in the procedure to induce hypothermia for open heart surgery from the Therm-O-Rite Products Corporation of Buffalo, New York.

Dr. Christiaan Barnard performed the world's first successful heart transplant in December of 1967. Barnard completed a residency from 1956-1958 under Owen Wangensteen, chief of the Department of Surgery at the University of Minnesota Hospitals.

Dr. Christaan Barnard of the Department of Surgery at the University of Capetown in South Africa came to the University of Minnesota as a surgical resident in January of 1956. From 1956-1958 he was trained on the pump oxygenator system for open heart…

Dr. Christaan Barnard of the Department of Surgery at the University of Capetown in South Africa came to the University of Minnesota as a surgical resident in January of 1956. From 1956-1958 he was trained on the pump oxygenator system for open heart…

Dr. Christaan Barnard of the Department of Surgery at the University of Capetown in South Africa came to the University of Minnesota as a surgical resident in January of 1956. From 1956-1958 he was trained on the pump oxygenator system for open heart…

Dr. Christaan Barnard of the Department of Surgery at the University of Capetown in South Africa came to the University of Minnesota as a surgical resident in January of 1956. From 1956-1958 he was trained on the pump oxygenator system for open…

In a memorandum sent to all division and department heads on February 3, 1953, Robert B. Howard, Director of Post-Graduate Studies in the Medical School, requested a report "about the various research projects currently being carried out in the…

In a memorandum sent to all division and department heads on February 3, 1953, Robert B. Howard, Director of Post-Graduate Studies in the Medical School, requested a report "about the various research projects currently being carried out in the…

In a memorandum sent to all division and department heads on February 3, 1953, Robert B. Howard, Director of Post-Graduate Studies in the Medical School, requested a report "about the various research projects currently being carried out in the…

In a memorandum sent to all division and department heads on February 3, 1953, Robert B. Howard, Director of Post-Graduate Studies in the Medical School, requested a report "about the various research projects currently being carried out in the…

This news release reported the progress of the controlled cross circulation surgeries performed at the University, success of those surgeries, and outlined the individuals involved.