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By 2012 he had performed 10,000 heart surgeries at Michigan mostly on babies, [1] and that year he was also appointed chair of a newly created department of cardiac surgery at Michigan. [ 2 ] References
Cardiac surgeon who performed the world's first human-to-human heart transplant operation Fernando Antonio Bermúdez Arias: 1933: 2007: Venezuela: Barouh Berkovits: 1926: 2012: Czechoslovakia: Pioneered cardiac defibrillators and pace makers [9] Richard N. Fogoros: United States [10] Werner Forssmann: 1904: 1979: Germany: 1929 first cardiac ...
Reardon received his medical education from Baylor College of Medicine where he graduated with honors in 1978. He received his general surgery residency at Baylor College of Medicine in 1983 working under Dr. Michael E. DeBakey, and completed a thoracic surgery fellowship training at Texas Heart Institute in 1985 under the tutelage of Dr. Denton Cooley.
Cardiac surgery, or cardiovascular surgery, is a 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 ...
The STS National Database was established in 1989 as an initiative for quality improvement and patient safety among cardiothoracic surgeons. The Database has four components—the Adult Cardiac Surgery Database (ACSD), the General Thoracic Surgery Database (GTSD), the Congenital Heart Surgery Database (CHSD), and the Intermacs Database—and now houses more than 7.5 million surgical records.
The expansion increases the number of beds at the hospital by 75 percent and makes the hospital the largest of Michigan's three children's hospitals. Every inpatient room is private, in contrast to the old facility, which had mostly double occupancy rooms. [18] The new hospital has 16 operating rooms and two interventional radiology rooms.
Redmond P. Burke (born 4 November 1958) is an American congenital heart surgeon, [1] innovator, software developer, author, inventor, and founder of The Congenital Heart Institute at Miami Children's Hospital in Miami, Florida.
Lamelas is the Chief of Cardiac surgery and Professor of Surgery at the University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine. He is board certified in general surgery, cardiac surgery, thoracic surgery, and surgical critical care, and is a member of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS) and the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS). [5] [6]