Psychological Risks of Coronary Bypass Surgery

by June B. Pimm and Joseph R. Feist

Book Overview

Heart surgery is still a relatively recent advance in medical technology. The first open-heart procedure was closure of an atrial septal defect in a child at the University of Minnesota Hospital in 1953. This issued in a life-saving advance, the use of which has expanded enormously to in- clude treatment of many areas of cardiac disease. Not unexpectedly, surgical techniques allowed through the use of the heart-lung machine (open-heart surgery) came...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1461296951
• ISBN13: 9781461296959
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"