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LEARJET ANESTHESIA – THE EARLY DAYS OF HEART TRANSPLANTATION

The Anesthesia Consultant

Norman Shumway MD PhD, a Stanford surgical professor and legend, invented the heart transplantation procedure and performed the first heart transplant in the USA on January 6, 1968 in operating room 13 of Stanford University Hospital. Upon arrival at the airport in the donor city, an ambulance transported us to the hospital.

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SERIALIZATION OF THE DOCTOR AND MR. DYLAN… CHAPTER TWO

The Anesthesia Consultant

I scanned the operating room monitors and confirmed that her vital signs were perfect. The kid had no insight into what I did minute-to-minute in the hospital. Judith Chang turned her back on the operating room table, and peeled off her surgical gloves. Her life was my responsibility. Mom is so pissed. I stroked my chin.