A Achievement In Medical Procedures Heart transplant
“On December 3, 1967, 53-year-old Lewis Washkansky receives the first human heart transplant at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa.” This was a big step in medical processes including the heart for doctors as no one had ever successfully completed a heart transplant before. Though, there was many challenges and obstacles to improve this very dangerous and new method to help with a disease in the heart.
The first heart transplant The first heart transplant was performed in South Africa by Christiaan Barnard. The surgery was intense and took an entire nine hours according to www.sahistory.org. There were many doctors on the job to make sure all the steps would go as planned. Soon they finished, and the patient was breathing and alive. They had just made medical history by performing the first human heart transplant. …show more content…
She had been run over by a car just the day before. As her father said, “Early that evening Denise's father, Edward Darvall gives permission for Denise’s heart and kidneys to be donated as he knows she would have given permission herself if it had been possible.” Strangely enough, the patient who she was giving her heart to had driven past her during the accident. Still the heart was given and that day was the start of human heart transplants. This allowed longer living time for humans with diseases that involved their heart. Still it took many years of trying and improving to perfect the human heart