Helen Taussig, Mother of Pediatric Cardiology
Stuff You Missed in History Class
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4.2 • 23.6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2020
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Helen’s story is tied to Vivien Thomas and Alfred Blalock in the surgical treatment of blue baby syndrome. She was the one who suggested that Alfred Blalock try to find a surgical approach to congenital heart conditions like tetralogy of Fallot.
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| 0:30.7 | Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History class, |
| 0:34.5 | a production of I Heart Radio. |
| 0:36.5 | Hello and welcome to the podcast I'm Tracy V Wilson, and I'm Holly Fry. |
| 0:47.7 | Today we have the first episode in something that is not exactly a two-parter. |
| 0:52.7 | It is more like two interconnected episodes, |
| 0:55.9 | and they're so intertwined that when I was researching and writing them, |
| 0:58.7 | I had both outlines open the whole time. |
| 1:01.7 | Sometimes I also had two browser windows and two sets of PDFs full of research. |
| 1:06.6 | The episodes are on Helen Towsig and Vivian Thomas, |
| 1:10.1 | who worked with surgeon Alfred Blaylock to develop a surgical treatment for children |
| 1:14.5 | who had cyanotic heart conditions. |
| 1:16.5 | It's also called Blue Baby Syndrome. |
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