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Title Breakthrough! : how three people saved "blue babies" and changed medicine forever / Jim Murphy.
Author Murphy, Jim, 1947- author.
Publication Info. Boston : Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2015]
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 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Children's  J 617 MUR    Check Shelves
Description xiii, 129 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 103-122) and index.
Contents In the "dog house" -- The professor and his assistant -- Surrounded by failure -- Answered and unanswered questions -- The search -- "All the world is against it" -- "Vivien, you'd better come down here" -- Then what happened?
Summary In 1944, a groundbreaking operation repaired the congenital heart defect known as blue baby syndrome. The operation's success brought the surgeon Alfred Blalock international fame and paved the way for open-heart surgery. But the technique had been developed by Vivien Thomas, Blalock's African American lab assistant, who stood behind Blalock in the operating room to give him step-by-step instructions. The stories of this medical and social breakthrough and the lives of Thomas, Blalock, and their colleague Dr. Helen Taussig are intertwined in this nonfiction narrative.
Audience Ages 9-12.
Middle School.
1170 Lexile.
Subject Thomas, Vivien T., 1910-1985 -- Juvenile literature.
Blalock, Alfred, 1899-1964 -- Juvenile literature.
Taussig, Helen B. (Helen Brooke), 1898-1986 -- Juvenile literature.
Tetralogy of Fallot -- Juvenile literature.
Surgeons -- Maryland -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Cardiovascular system -- Surgery -- Juvenile literature.
Heart -- Surgery -- Juvenile literature.
Children -- Surgery -- History -- Juvenile literature.
African American surgeons -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Thomas, Vivien T., 1910-1985.
Blalock, Alfred, 1899-1964.
Taussig, Helen B. (Helen Brooke), 1898-1986.
Surgeons -- Maryland -- Biography.
Cardiovascular system -- Surgery.
Heart -- Surgery.
JUVENILE NONFICTION -- Biography & Autobiography -- Science & Technology.
JUVENILE NONFICTION -- Science & Nature -- Anatomy & Physiology.
JUVENILE NONFICTION -- United States -- History -- 20th Century.
JUVENILE NONFICTION -- People & Places -- United States -- African American.
Genre Biographies.
ISBN 9780547821832 (hardcover) : $18.99
0547821832 (hardcover)
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