Talk:Cardiac surgery

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1 What about...
2 E. Converse Peirce
3 Claims re: Daniel Hale Williams
4 www.heart-valve-surgery.com

[edit] What about...

Including something about the roles of the medical team associated with the procedure? The medical and scientific teams, and equipment used and developed for the surgery deserve a mention... Perfusionists, anesthesiologists, anesthetics used, aortic stints, imaging equipment methods and practices.

I'd like to collaborate with anyone interested to include these on the Cardiac surgery page; cheers user:Mattycoze

[edit] E. Converse Peirce

I highly doubt the claim Dr. Peirce "paved the way for successful open heart surgery technology in the 1960s and 1970s." Please see my comments in Talk:Membrane oxygenator. The claim may be applicable on the Membrane oxygenator page, but it isn't significant enough to include here. I won't delete the text here yet to get time to substantiate the claim. Dlodge 17:12, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

No response. Removed text. Dlodge 20:29, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Claims re: Daniel Hale Williams

The claims regarding Daniel Hale Williams performing the first open heart surgery are incorrect for a variety of reasons:

Dr. Williams was not the first to repair a pericardial wound - Henry Dalton sutured a pericardium in 1891. Dr. Williams did in fact repair the pericardium of James Cornish in 1893, who had been stabbed in the chest. Surgery within the chest was unheard of in those days due to the almost inevitable infection and resulting death.
The pericardium is not part of the heart - it is the sac surrounding the heart. Dr. Williams did not suture the heart, so in fact he did not perform any type of surgery on the heart.
"Open heart surgery" is a widely overused term. Coronary artery bypass surgery is not in fact "open-heart" - the bypass grafts are sewn onto the outside of the heart. True open heart surgery entails things such as valve replacement when the heart is cut open and surgery is performed inside the heart.

For the above reasons, I have removed the claims regarding Dr. Williams. The Wikipedia page on Dr. Williams gives a good description (with references) of his surgery on the pericardium. Dlodge 05:57, 28 January 2007 (UTC)