Intro to Cardiac Surgery

<body background="../_themes/expeditn/exptextb.jpg" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#993300" vlink="#666600" alink="#CC3300"><font face="Book Antiqua, Times New Roman, Times"> <p>The first successful operation on the heart was done in 1896 on a patient with a stab wound to the heart. However, after that, not much was done. The problem is that your body needs your heart beating all the time to pump blood to the rest of your body. This problem was solved in 1953, when they developed a pump that will take care of pumping blood to the body so that the heart can be temporarily stopped. The first valve replacement was done in 1955 and the first bypass was done in 1964.</p> <p><a href="../Intro/intro1-2.htm" target="_top">next</a></p> </font><table border="1" width="100%" bordercolordark="#660000" bordercolorlight="#CC9966"> <tr> <td width="16%"><font face="Book Antiqua, Times New Roman, Times"><a href="../index1.htm" target="_top">Home</a></font></td> <td width="16%"><font face="Book Antiqua, Times New Roman, Times"><a href="../services1.htm" target="_top">Services</a></font></td> <td width="17%"><font face="Book Antiqua, Times New Roman, Times"><a href="../info1.htm" target="_top">Info</a></font></td> <td width="17%"><font face="Book Antiqua, Times New Roman, Times"><a href="../faq1.htm" target="_top">FAQ's</a></font></td> <td width="17%"><font face="Book Antiqua, Times New Roman, Times"><a href="../contact1.htm" target="_top">Contact Us</a></font></td> <td width="17%"><font face="Book Antiqua, Times New Roman, Times"><a href="../links1.htm" target="_top">Links</a></font></td> </tr> </table><font face="Book Antiqua, Times New Roman, Times"></font></body>