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Discovery of Blood Types
Karl Landsteiner demonstrates that people have different blood types, determined by the marker molecules on there red blood cells. His discovery made blood transfusions to be done safer. -
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Heart Transplant Timeline
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Blood Banks
Charles Drew showed that emergency transfusions could successfully be done with plasma if whole blood was not available. He started making blood banks for storing blood in World War II, and saved millions of lives on the battlefield. -
Treatment for Blue Babies
Halen Taussig identified the heart defect that causes skin of newborn babies to be bluish in color. The blood of these babies did not receive enough oxygen. She and Alfred Blalock developed an operation to correct the defects and save these babies' lives. -
First Heart Transplant
Christiaan Barnard, a south African surgeon, did the first transplant of a human heart. Louis Washkansky, the man who got the heart, lived for 18 days after the transplant. -
Artificial Heart
An artificial heart was made by Robert Jarvik, was transplanted into a Barney Clark, by surgeon, William DeVries. Clark lived for 112 days after the transplant. -
Laser Beam Unclogs Arteries
The United States of America's government approved a device that used a laser beam to burn away the material causing blockage in arteries, it helped people with atherosclerosis.