Breakthrough!: how three people saved "blue babies" and changed medicine forever

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Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date:
[2015]
Language:
English
Lexile measure:
1170L
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"The story of the landmark 1944 surgical procedure that repaired the heart of a child with blue baby syndrome--lack of blood oxygen caused by a congenital defect. The team that developed the procedure included a cardiologist and a surgeon, but most of theactual work was done by Vivien Thomas, an African American lab assistant who was frequently mistaken for a janitor"--
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9780547821832
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Lexile measure:
1170L
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Blalock, Alfred, -- 1899-1964
Blalock, Alfred, -- 1899-1964 -- Juvenile literature
Cardiovascular system -- Surgery -- Juvenile literature
Circulatory system -- Surgery
Heart -- Surgery
Heart -- Surgery -- Juvenile literature
Physicians
Surgeons -- Maryland -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
Taussig, Helen B. -- (Helen Brooke), -- 1898-1986
Taussig, Helen B. -- (Helen Brooke), -- 1898-1986 -- Juvenile literature
Thomas, Vivien, -- 1910-1985
Thomas, Vivien, -- 1910-1985 -- Juvenile literature
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Breakthrough! : how three people saved "blue babies" and changed medicine forever
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Breakthrough!
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Blalock, Alfred
Cardiovascular system
Circulatory system
Heart
Physicians
Surgeons
Surgery
Taussig, Helen B
Thomas, Vivien

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