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Author Murphy, Jim, 1947-2022

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

Publication Info. Boston : Clarion Books, [2015]

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 Avon Free Public Library - Children's Department  J 617 MURPHY    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Main Library - Children's Department  J617.0232 MUR    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Barney Branch - Teen Department  TEEN 617.02 MUR    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Children's Department  J 617.02 MUR    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Teen Department  TEEN 617.02 MUR c.3  Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Teen Department  TEEN 617.02 MUR c.4  Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Children's Department  J 617 MURPHY    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Children's Department  J 617.0232 MURPHY    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Children's Department  J617 MUR    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Children's Department  J HEALTH 617.0232 MUR    Check Shelf

Description xiii, 129 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Note Includes index.
Audience Age 9-12.
Summary In 1944 a groundbreaking operation repaired the congenital heart defect known as blue baby syndrome. The operation's success brought the surgeon Alfred Blalock international fame and paved the way for open-heart surgery. But the technique had been painstakingly developed by Vivien Thomas, Blalocks African American lab assistant, who stood behind Blalock in the operating room to give him step-by-step instructions. The stories of this medical and social breakthrough and the lives of Thomas, Blalock, and their colleague Dr. Helen Taussig are intertwined in this compelling nonfiction narrative.
Audience Middle School.
1170 Lexile
Subject Thomas, Vivien, 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.
JUVENILE NONFICTION / Biography & Autobiography / Science & Technology.
JUVENILE NONFICTION / Science & Nature / Anatomy & Physiology.
JUVENILE NONFICTION / History / United States / 20th Century.
JUVENILE NONFICTION / People & Places / United States / African American.
ISBN 9780547821832 (hardback)
0547821832 (hardback)
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