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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. At this point my work began.

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SERIALIZATION OF THE DOCTOR AND MR. DYLAN… CHAPTER TWO

The Anesthesia Consultant

The text read: 911 call me I was administering an anesthetic to a 41-year-old woman in an operating room at Stanford University, while a neurosurgeon worked to remove a meningioma tumor from her brain. I scanned the operating room monitors and confirmed that her vital signs were perfect.