Correspondence, Richard Varco to Owen Wangensteen regarding obtaining more surgical cases for F. John Lewis to employ new methods for open heart surgery

Correspondence, Richard Varco to Owen Wangensteen regarding obtaining more surgical cases for F. John Lewis to employ new methods for open heart surgery

Open Heart Surgery

F. John Lewis, Richard Varco, Mansur Taufic, and C. Walton Lillehei performed the world's first open heart surgery under direct vision in a dry operative field on September 2, 1952. The surgeons repaired an atrial septal defect on a 5-year-old girl using induced hypothermia and inflow occlusion.

Richard Varco

"Surgery staff correspondence, 1952-1953," Box 31, Department of Surgery records, uarc1007, University of Minnesota Archives

University of Minnesota

12-Sep-52

Owen Wangensteen

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Open Heart Surgery

Dr. Wangensteen,

I heartily endorse the thought about aiding John's case for an U.S.P.H.S. grant and will continue to seek for some willing and needy candidate. Dr. Paul Adams and Dr. Paul Dwan too are looking. The department, the hospital, and all of us would benefit from a few more successes in the near future.

Richard

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