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Gairdner Foundation International Award (1959) Alfred Blalock (April 5, 1899 – September 15, 1964) was an American surgeon most noted for his work on the medical condition of shock as well as tetralogy of Fallot – commonly known as blue baby syndrome. He created, with assistance from his research and laboratory assistant Vivien Thomas and ...
Vital record. Vital records are records of life events kept under governmental authority, including birth certificates, marriage licenses (or marriage certificates ), separation agreements, divorce certificates or divorce party and death certificates. In some jurisdictions, vital records may also include records of civil unions or domestic ...
HBO. Release. May 30, 2004. ( 2004-05-30) Something the Lord Made is a 2004 American made-for-television biographical drama film about the black cardiac pioneer Vivien Thomas (1910–1985) and his complex and volatile partnership with white surgeon Alfred Blalock (1899–1964), the "Blue Baby doctor" who pioneered modern heart surgery.
Russell L. Blaylock. Russell L. Blaylock (born November 15, 1945) is an author and a retired U.S. neurosurgeon . Blaylock was a clinical assistant professor of neurosurgery at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. In 2013 he was a visiting professor in the biology department at Belhaven College. [1]
Blue baby syndrome, Atrial septostomy. Dr. Vivien Theodore Thomas (August 29, 1910 [1] – November 26, 1985) [2] was an American laboratory supervisor who in the 1940s developed a procedure used to treat blue baby syndrome (now known as cyanotic heart disease). [3] He was the assistant to surgeon Alfred Blalock in Blalock's experimental animal ...
Vital statistics is accumulated data gathered on live births, deaths, migration, foetal deaths, marriages and divorces. The most common way of collecting information on these events is through civil registration , an administrative system used by governments to record vital events which occur in their populations.
The Mississippi Department of Archives and History developed from the Mississippi Historical Society in the interest of promoting and protecting "Southern Identity" through acquisition and preservation of historical records, especially those records pertaining to the American Civil War. [5] Legislation authorizing creation of Department of ...
Alfred Blalock was an American surgeon most known for his work on the Blue Baby syndrome. C. Rollins Hanlon was also an American surgeon but was best known for his work in cardiology. The procedure that these two men created, known as the Blalock–Hanlon procedure, was a new concept termed atrial septectomy.