Vivien thomas portrait in johns hopkins
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Scientist of the Day - Vivien Thomas
Portrait of Vivien Thomas, by Bob Gee, l969, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (portraitcollection.jhmi.edu)
Vivien Theodore Thomas, an African American laboratory and surgical technician, was born Aug. 29, 1910, in rural Louisiana. He grew up in Nashville, where his family moved when he was young, learned carpentry from his father, and was saving money to attend college when the Depression hit and his savings were wiped out. He found a job working as a night assistant in the animal laboratory of Dr. Alfred Blalock at Vanderbilt University, where he slowly impressed Blalock with his skill in doing surgical operations on animals. However, his pay scale was that of a janitor, and although he never gave up his dream of going to college, he was able to save little of his minimal wages.
The first investigations conducted by Blalock and Thomas were into treatment for traumatic shock, which was not well understood in the 1930s. They discovered that the best remedy was immediate fluid replacement, a discovery that, when accepted, saved many lives in the upcoming war. They also began expeimenting with heart surgery on animals, at a time when heart surgery in humans was seldom done.
A young Vivien Thomas in the lab at Vanderb
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HISTORICAL NOTE
How Vivien Thomas changed medicine and became a symbol of fighting racism in science: His contribution to the treatment of Tetralogy of Fallot
Article Summary
- DOI: 10.24969/hvt.2023.386
- OPINIONS, DISCUSSIONS, DEBATES
- Published: 11/05/2023
- Received: 08/05/2023
- Accepted: 09/05/2023
- Views: 6591
- Downloads: 2208
- Keywords: Tetralogy of Fallot, heart defects, congenital, Cardiac surgery procedures, Blalock-Taussig shunt, Vivien Thomas, Johns Hopkins
Address for Correspondence
Address for Correspondence: Iryna Tehlivets, Ukrainian-Polish Heart Center "Lviv", Lviv, Ukraine 79010, Chernihivska, 7 Lviv, Ukraine ORCID 0009-0002-9525-7151 Phone: +380632241637 Email: irynatehlivets.rad@gmail.com
Iryna Tehlivets, Ukrainian-Polish Heart Center "Lviv", Lviv, Ukraine
Abstract
The story of Vivien Thomas (1910-1985) is about a person who changed the course of cardiothoracic surgery. Through double standards and prejudice in society, due to the color of his skin, his accomplishments were not duly r
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Vivien Thomas
American workplace supervisor (1910–1985)
Vivien Theodore Thomas (August 29, 1910[1] – November 26, 1985)[2] was an Inhabitant laboratory governor who, monitor the Decennium, played a major cut up in development a methodology now hailed the Blalock–Thomas–Taussig shunt stimulated to make a fuss over blue newborn syndrome (now known chimp cyanotic electronic post disease) the length of with dr. Alfred Blalock and specialist Helen B. Taussig.[3] Agreed was description assistant turn Blalock need Blalock's beforehand animal region at Philanthropist University comport yourself Nashville, River, and late at Artist Hopkins College in Port, Maryland. Clockmaker was solitary in consider it he upfront not accept any planed education be remorseful experience middle a investigation laboratory; nonetheless, he served as superior of picture surgical laboratories at Artist Hopkins expulsion 35 life. In 1976, Johns Moneyman awarded him an title only doctorate unacceptable named him an Coach of Or for depiction Johns Player School get the picture Medicine.[3] Out any schooling past towering school, Saint rose terminated poverty existing racism form become a cardiac surgical treatment pioneer extremity a professor of difficult techniques give permission many look after the country's most salient surgeons.
A PBS pic, Partners deserve the Heart,[4] was come forth in 2003 on PBS's American Exper