The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 136, Issue 5 , Pages 1117-1122 , November 2008

Fifty years of cardiothoracic surgery through the looking glass and what the future holds

  • Marko Turina, MD

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    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress for reprints: Marko Turina, MD, University Hospital, Haldenbach 18, 8091 Zurich, Switzerland.

Received 14 August 2008 ,Accepted 25 August 2008.

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    Working conditions in the early 1960s: single-channel oscilloscope, surface-induced hypothermia with a rubber blanket for atrial septal defect closure, and total body immersion for deep hypothermia in infants. ECG, Electrocardiogram.

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    National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute research support in the United States in the last 5 decades, in million dollars. National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (www.nih.gov/about/almanac/appropiations/index.htm).

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    World scientific output. With permission from von Bubnoff A. Asia squeezes Europe's lead in science. Nature. 2005;436:314.

 Distinguished guest address, delivered at the 88th Annual Meeting of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery, San Diego, California, May 13, 2008.

PII: S0022-5223(08)01364-0

doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2008.08.014

The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 136, Issue 5 , Pages 1117-1122 , November 2008

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