Summary
IN 1956, readers helped our baby, John (the Daily Sketch's 'Heartbreak Baby') get the heart surgery he so desperately needed through the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota.
His story told the world that a heart bypass machine, the Gibbon- type pump, could take over the job of pumping blood around the body while surgeons were repairing a hole between the ventricles of a baby's heart.See the full content of this document
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Future of Medicine Is at Stake
Surgeons from the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford and Great Ormond ...
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