Today we celebrate 75 years since the first "blue baby" surgery by Alfred Blalock, with Helen Taussig and Vivien Thomas on November 29, 1944.
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The child was 15-month-old, Eileen Saxon, the surgery was a success and she went home after 3 months. Unfortunately her cynotic episodes returned and 2 days before her 2nd birthday, she underwent another operation, she passed away 5 days later.
Now known as the BT or BTT shunt, the surgery was a success and really the start of #CHD surgery. We have come a long way since then, with an almost 95% survival rate into adulthood now.
Between 1947 and...