Breakthrough! : how three people saved "blue babies" and changed medicine forever
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Breakthrough! : how three people saved "blue babies" and changed medicine forever
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- Breakthrough! : how three people saved "blue babies" and changed medicine forever
- Title remainder
- how three people saved "blue babies" and changed medicine forever
- Statement of responsibility
- Jim Murphy
- Subject
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- Blalock, Alfred, 1899-1964
- Cardiovascular system -- Surgery -- Juvenile literature
- Circulatory system -- Surgery
- History
- Thomas, Vivien, 1910-1985 -- Juvenile literature
- Taussig, Helen B., (Helen Brooke), 1898-1986
- JUVENILE NONFICTION -- Biography & Autobiography | Science & Technology
- JUVENILE NONFICTION -- United States -- History | 20th Century
- African American surgeons
- Heart -- Surgery -- Juvenile literature
- Blalock, Alfred, 1899-1964 -- Juvenile literature
- Surgeons -- Maryland -- Biography | Juvenile literature
- Children -- Surgery
- Heart -- Surgery
- Biography
- JUVENILE NONFICTION -- Science & Nature | Anatomy & Physiology
- Juvenile works
- Biographies
- Maryland
- Taussig, Helen B., (Helen Brooke), 1898-1986 -- Juvenile literature
- Tetralogy of Fallot
- Thomas, Vivien, 1910-1985
- Thomas, Vivien, 1910-1985
- JUVENILE NONFICTION -- People & Places -- United States -- African American
- Cardiovascular system -- Surgery
- Blalock, Alfred, 1899-1964
- Taussig, Helen B., (Helen Brooke), 1898-1986
- Surgeons -- Maryland -- Biography
- Surgeons
- Heart -- Surgery
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "The story of the landmark 1944 surgical procedure that repaired the heart of a child with blue baby syndrome--lack of blood oxygen caused by a congenital defect. The team that developed the procedure included a cardiologist and a surgeon, but most of the actual work was done by Vivien Thomas, an African American lab assistant who was frequently mistaken for a janitor"--
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- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- Dewey number
- 617/.0232
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Intended audience
- Age 9-12
- LC call number
- RD27.35.T46
- LC item number
- M87 2015
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Target audience
- juvenile
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