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NELSON, Russell Marion (1924 – )

NELSON, Russell Marion (1924 – )

1924 –

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

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1951 CE

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Development of a pump-oxygenator to replace the heart and lungs: An apparatus applicable to human patients, and application to one case.

Dennis and colleagues performed the first human cardiac operation with total heart-lung bypass. The patient was a 6-year old girl with a huge atrial septal defect. Though she did not survive, this report encouraged ot…