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Herrick's second major contribution was a landmark article on myocardial infarction ("heart attack") in JAMA in 1912. [5] [6] He proposed that thrombosis in the coronary artery leads to the symptoms and abnormalities of heart attacks and that this was not inevitably fatal. While Herrick was not the first to propose this, ultimately his article ...
The history of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) can be traced as far back as the literary works of ancient Egypt (c. 2686 – c. 2181 BC). [1] However, it was not until the 18th century that credible reports of cardiopulmonary resuscitation began to appear in the medical literature.
Louis Joshua Washkansky (12 April 1912 [1] – 21 December 1967) was a South African man who was the recipient of the world's first human-to-human heart transplant, and the first patient to regain consciousness following the operation. [2] Washkansky lived for 18 days and was able to speak with his wife and reporters. [3] [4] [5]
During the 1921 British Mount Everest reconnaissance expedition, two people died en route to the mountain: an unidentified porter and heart attack victim A. M. Kellas. [8] [9] The first recorded deaths on the mountain itself were seven porters who perished in an avalanche in the 1922 British Mount Everest expedition.
Heart attack 1983 David Griggs: 28 LB: San Diego Chargers: Car crash 1995 Roger Hagberg: 31 TE: Oakland Raiders : Car crash 1970 Chuck Hughes: 28 WR: Detroit Lions: Cardiac arrest (in-game), compounded by spleen injury from a previous game 1971 Bruce McLenna: 26 FB: Kansas City Chiefs : Car crash 1968 Ralph Norwood: 23 OT: Atlanta Falcons: Car ...
In the Heart of the Sea isn’t just an epic tale of man versus nature, it’s also a dramatic recounting of a real attack.. The 2015 Ron Howard film was based on Nathaniel Philbrick’s 2000 ...
The attack on Pearl Harbor launched the United States into World War II and left an indelible scar on the American psyche matched only by the attacks of Sept. 11. A recorded 2,403 service members ...
Werner Theodor Otto Forßmann (Forssmann in English; German pronunciation: [ˈvɛʁnɐ ˈfɔʁsˌman] ⓘ; 29 August 1904 – 1 June 1979) was a German researcher and physician from Germany who shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Medicine (with Andre Frederic Cournand and Dickinson W. Richards) for developing a procedure that allowed cardiac catheterization.