医学专业英语课件_1.pptxVIP

Building A Better HeartSecond Chance: artificial heart;Milestones in artificial heart; 1964, the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute sets a goal of designing a total artificial heart by 1970 ; 1967, Dr. Christiaan Barnard performs the first successful human heart transplant. The patients, 53-year-old dentist Louis Washkansky, dies 18 days after surgery in South African ; In 1969, a team led by Denton Cooley of the Texas Heart Institute successfully kept a human patient alive for more than sixty hours with their model (temporary). The pati