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In 1706 Raymond de Vieussens, a French anatomy professor, first described the structure of the heart's chambers and vessels.
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This marked the point at which people learned and widely used a necessary method in almost all cardiac surgeries.
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Shortly after the creation of the electrocardiograph, cardiology blew up in the medical field. It was a important and new field of medicine that just so happened to spark people up with a new breakthrough. This created the start of a need for a higher level of knowledge for cardiac surgeons.
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1903 Willem Einthoven, a Dutch physiologist, develops the electrocardiograph.
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In St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1908, Ignatowski observed a possible relation between cholesterol rich foods and experimental atherosclerosis. This started the study of cholesterol and its possitive and neggitive effrects on people.
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1912 James B. Herrick, an American physician, first describes heart disease resulting from hardening of the arteries.
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(1914-1987), Canadian surgeon who devised a operatioin known as the "Mustard Operation" to correct a complecated inborn deffect in "blue babies" in which the arteries and veins to and from the heart are switched so that they link up with the wrong heart chambers.
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1938 Robert E. Gross, an American surgeon, performs first heart surgery. This launched the cardiac community into a new era of hope. letting doctors see how patients can be cured instead of treated.
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1952 F. John Lewis, an American surgeon, performs first successful open heart surgery. this informationo and tecneqie later went on to be used by doctors every where.
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in 1952 Paul Zoll a cardiologist at Beth Israel Hospital, developed the first external pacemaker. This marked some of the first steps into modern day cardiology by providing a vital tool in modern times to make sure hearts keep beating, the pace maker.
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1953 John H. Gibbon, an American surgeon, first uses a mechanical heart and blood purifier. This not only aloud bypass to become safer and more effiencent, but it enabled the start for the treatment of kidney failure.
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In 1958, Interventional Radiologist, Dr. Charles Dotter began working on methods to visualize the coronary anatomy via sequential radiographic films.
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The use of a balloon-tipped catheter for the treatment of atherosclerotic vascular disease was first described in 1964 by two radiologists, Charles Dotter and Melvin Judkins,
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1967 Christiaan Barnard, a South African surgeon, performs the first whole heart transplant from one person to another.
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first statin inhibitor was descovered by Akira Endo of Sankyo Pharmaceuticals in 1976. this meicine was able to treat heart conditions of a large varaition.
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1982 Willem DeVries, an American surgeon, implants a permanent artificial heart, designed by Robert Jarvik, an American physician, into a patient. This set up a hole new approch in the medical feild of replacing the heart instead of fixing it.
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The average rage salary is 450,00 annually
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A medical degree is required as well as 2 years of extinsive rounds with supervisio
