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[gregorygalloway]

Michael DeBakey (born Michel Dabaghi; 7 September 1908 – 11 July 2008)

[gregorygalloway]

Michael DeBakey (born Michel Dabaghi; 7 September 1908 – 11 July 2008)

[libearyn]

One Hymn at a Time

One Hymn at a Time

“The human heart yearns for peace and love and freedom. Peace heals, elevates,and invigorates the spirit.” 

                                                                                                                    ~ Michael DeBakey   We preach Christ, warning people not to add to the Message. We teach in a spirit of profound common sense so that we can bring each person to maturity. To…

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[theblogofhouston]

Today in Histories of Houston - May 3rd 1968

First Human Heart Transplant Occurs in Houston

Two Houston Surgeons, Dr. Michael DeBakey and Dr. Denton Cooley at St. Luke’s Hospital perform the first heart transplant on patient Everett Thomas with a heart donated from a fifteen year-old girl, living for 204 days after the transplant. DeBakey and Cooley worked at the vanguard of heart surgery and transplantation, heavily contributing to the development of the practice from dangerous experimentation to approved method for patients suffering from end-stage cardiac disease. Due to a perpetual shortage of donated human hearts to use in transplants, DeBakey convinced the U.S. Government to provide funding and support in developing a fully artificial heart to act as a middle ground for patients awaiting a transplant. In 1969, Cooley and his team were at work developing his own technology for artificial human hearts and would become the first doctor to successfully implant an artificial heart in patient Hasskell Karp, one year after becoming the first doctor to perform an organic heart transplant. Karp lived for 64 hours with an artificial heart before a real one came and could be implanted within him. He lived only a day longer with an organic heart, dying of renal failure and pneumonia.

DeBakey (left) and Cooley (right) pictured with a prototype of an artificial heart

DeBakey and Cooley would undergo a professional rivalry over credit to who is responsible for the historic transplant, as an assistant to both mentors, Dr. Domingo Liotta, brought the artificial heart developed by DeBakey to Cooley for use in a human. DeBakey stressed it was not ready for a human body yet but was used by Cooley regardless. Despite the public feud, their contributions to the medical industry forever changed the practice of saving patients with failing hearts. Since 1994, over 26,000 successful heart transplants were reported worldwide, 1,804 of them in Texas.

The artificial heart implanted in Hasskell Karp on display at the Smithsonian

Stemming back to their invaluable, trailblazing operations in transplanting human hearts, DeBakey and Cooley would later make peace in 2007 as both legacies are forever ingrained in medical and Houston History.

[unchsl]

Join us tomorrow for our final Bullitt History of Medicine Club lecture of the Fall 2017 semester! Dr. Craig Miller will speak about surgical pioneer Dr. Michael E. DeBakey. Miller is a National Library of Medicine Michael E. DeBakey Fellow, researching and writing a comprehensive biography about DeBakey. All are welcome to attend!

[apathyhasrainedonme]

Know your instruments: DeBakey tissue forceps

***Named after Dr. Michael E DeBakey

***Atraumatic tissue forceps; offset teeth are used to grab soft tissue without causing damage.

***Can be found in any basic instrument set for general or plastic surgery

***Also known as:

- DeBakey

- Vascular pick-ups

- Long pick-ups

- Pick-ups

- Big Boys (extra long DeBakeys for going deep into the abdomen)

[daviddobbs]

Slow-Mo Demo of Building Packed With Surgical & Personal History

  Do all buildings hold secrets like this? Likely so. I just happen to know these two.

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[voicesbyzane]

The New Gods: The God of Medicine, Michael DeBakey

Chances are you never heard of DeBakey. Here's a short list of medical developments that DeBakey had a part in:

-Heart-Lung Machine, vital for heart transplants -The Link between smoking and Lung Cancer -Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery -The Artificial freakin' heart.

Oh, and he lived to 100 freakin' years old.