Dawn and Evolution of Cardiac Procedures Research Avenues in Cardiac Surgery and Interventional Cardiology /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Picichè, Marco (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Milano : Springer Milan : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Laboratory medicine.; Anesthesiology.; Cardiology.; Cardiac surgery.; Medicine > History.; Biomedical engineering.; Medicine & Public Health.; Cardiac Surgery.; History of Medicine.; Laboratory Medicine.; Biomedical Engineering.

The origins of cardiac surgery are dramatic. It has evolved through the efforts of visionaries who were often criticized and at times dismissed as mad, as well as the great number of desperate patients who accepted to subject themselves to new and untried procedures in the hope of cheating death. Wh...