Title Breakthrough! : how three people saved "blue babies" and changed medicine forever / Jim Murphy.

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Boston : Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2015]

Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1774412~S1

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95th Street Juvenile Nonfiction	J 617.023 MUR	AVAILABLE

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Description	xiii, 129 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Audience	Age 9-12.
Note	Age 9-12.
Summary	"The story of the landmark 1944 surgical procedure that repaired the heart of a child with blue baby syndrome--lack of blood oxygen caused by a congenital defect. The team that developed the procedure included a cardiologist and a surgeon, but most of the actual work was done by Vivien Thomas, an African American lab assistant who was frequently mistaken for a janitor"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	In the "Dog House" -- The Professor and His Assistant -- Surrounded by Failure -- Answered and Unanswered Questions -- The Search -- "All the World Is Against It" -- "Vivien, You'd Better Come Down Here" -- Then What Happened?
Audience	1170L Lexile
Note	1170L Lexile
Study Program	Accelerated Reader MG 8.3 3 178900
Note	Accelerated Reader MG 8.3 3 178900
Subject	Thomas, Vivien T., 1910-1985 -- Juvenile literature.
	Blalock, Alfred, 1899-1964 -- Juvenile literature.
	Taussig, Helen B. (Helen Brooke), 1898-1986 -- Juvenile literature.
	Surgeons -- Maryland -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
	Cardiovascular system -- Surgery -- Juvenile literature.
	Heart -- Surgery -- Juvenile literature.
	Physicians -- Juvenile literature.
	Circulatory system -- Surgery -- Juvenile literature.
Genre	Young adult literature.
ISBN	9780547821832 (hardback)
	0547821832 (hardback)

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