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Tofigh "Tofy" Mussivand (Persian: توفیق موسیوند; 2 December 1942 – 7 January 2024) was an Iranian-Canadian medical engineer of Kurdish origin who invented an artificial cardiac pump, a device that pumps blood and takes over the function of breathing during a heart surgery.
Wilfred Gordon "Bill" Bigelow OC FRSC (June 18, 1913 – March 27, 2005) was a Canadian heart surgeon known for his role in developing the artificial pacemaker and the use of hypothermia in open heart surgery.
Peter Allen (December 13, 1921 – November 17, 2014) was a Canadian surgeon who played a leading role in improving cardiac surgery techniques. Along with Dr. Philip Ashmore, Dr. W.G. (Bill) Trapp and Dr. Ross Robertson, he performed the first Open Heart Surgery in British Columbia on 29 October 1957 at Vancouver General Hospital, by closing an Atrial Septal Defect (ASD) in 9 year old John ...
As President of the Colorado Heart Association, he founded one of the early jogging programs promoting heart health. J. Willis Hurst: 1920 2011 United States Cardiologist of former U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson. Editor of Hurst's the Heart. Vladimir Kanjuh: 1929: Macedonia [22] Yariv Khaykin: Canada [23] John Kjekshus: 1936: Norway
Surgeon in the field of congenital heart defects William Thornton Mustard OC MBE (August 8, 1914 – December 11, 1987) was a Canadian physician and cardiac surgeon . In 1949, he was one of the first to perform open-heart surgery using a mechanical heart pump and biological lung on a dog at the Banting Institute.
Cardiac surgery, or cardiovascular surgery, is surgery on the heart or great vessels performed by cardiac surgeons.It is often used to treat complications of ischemic heart disease (for example, with coronary artery bypass grafting); to correct congenital heart disease; or to treat valvular heart disease from various causes, including endocarditis, rheumatic heart disease, [1] and ...
Richard Whitlock FRCSC is a Canadian cardiovascular surgeon and intensivist, the Canada Research Chair in Cardiovascular Surgery and a professor of surgery at McMaster University Medical School. He is most well known for being the principal investigator of the SIRS (Steroids in Cardiac Surgery) trial and the LAAOS III (Left Atrial Appendage ...
Keon founded the University of Ottawa Heart Institute at the Ottawa Civic Hospital in 1976, [3] acting as its CEO for more than thirty years until his retirement from that job in April 2004. [4] In 1986, he was the first Canadian to implant an artificial heart into a human as a bridge to transplant . [ 5 ]