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Author:
Fye, Bruce, author.
Title:
Caring for the heart : Mayo Clinic and the rise of specialization / W. Bruce Fye.
Publisher:
Oxford University Press,
Copyright Date:
2015
Description:
xxiv, 672 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Subject:
Mayo Clinic--History.
Cardiology--History.
Heart $x Surgery--History.
Medicine--Specialties and specialists.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The nineteenth-century origins of the Mayo practice -- The Mayo's invention of multispecialty group practice -- The development of an academic medical center in Rochester -- Patient care and clinical research in the 1920s -- The electrocardiograph and the birth of cardiology -- Challenges and changes during the depression -- President Roosevelt's secret hypertensive heart disease -- The reinvention of the American Heart Association, and the invention of cardiac catheterization -- Surgeons begin trying to treat heart disease -- Pioneering open-heart surgery at the University of Minnesota and the Mayo Clinic -- The expansion of open-heart surgery and cardiac catheterization -- Beyond mid-century : two decades of growth and change -- Creating coronary care units and empowering nurses -- Coronary angiography : the Cleveland Clinic leads the way -- Coronary artery bypass surgery stimulates the growth of angiography -- Transforming cardiac catheters into treatment tools -- Analyzing and managing abnormal heart rhythms -- Seeing the heart : echocardiography and other imaging technologies -- Treating heart failure and preventing cardiovascular disease -- Challenges and opportunities around the new millennium.
ISBN:
019998235X (alk. paper)
9780199982356 (alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)878301182
LCCN:
2014016050
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
CEAX572 -- Kirkwood Community College Library (Cedar Rapids)
PYAX423 -- ECC - Osgood Library (Iowa Falls)

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