A successful cardiac surgeon is a man who, when asked to identify the three best surgeons in the world, has difficulty in naming the other two.
—Denton Cooley
Drive-line infection
A spinning blood pump the size of a bicycle bell, weighing just half a pound. Electromagnets drove one single moving part—a six-bladed turbine. First called the AB-180, it was intended to support the circulation for up to six months.
Tandem heart
ALCAPA is the acronym for anomalous left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery
extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation, or ECMO
When I was young and full of life,
I loved the local doctor’s wife,
And ate an apple every day,
To keep the doctor far away.
—Thomas W. Lamont
Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.
—Theodor Seuss Geisel
CentriMag ventricular assist device. TheraTec