DARING OPERATION
DOCTOR INSERTS TUBE IN OWN HEART
A remarkable experiment has been successfully carried out by Dr. Foresmann, an assistant in the surgical department of a hospital at Eberwalde, to the north of Berlin, which, it it considered, will pave the way to a new method of reaching the heart for medical purposes. Dr. Forssmann, who has long been convinced of the possibility of the procedure. made the experiment on himself. How this was done is explained in detail by the “Berlin Clinical Weekly,” a leading medical journal.
After applying a local anaesthetic Dr. Forssmann inserted a flexible fine rubber tube, about 26in. long, Into a vein above the left elbow, pushing it carefully upward until it reached a larger vein under the shoulder-blade and thence passed into the right cavity of the heart. The experimenter felt no pain cr other discomfort, the only effect being a sensation of warmth under the shoulder-blade and a desire to cough. The experiment itself lasted four seconds, and Dr. Forssmann then walked with the end of the tufie In his iheart to the X-ray room, where a photograph was taken. Dr. Forssmann described this as the nattiral way to the heart and the surest way in cases where life may depend on drugs or other medicaments reaching the heart within a few minutes.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 857, 28 December 1929, Page 6
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221DARING OPERATION Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 857, 28 December 1929, Page 6
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