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history of Cath/EP
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Who is credited with the development of specialized preformed, femoral approach catheters? | Melvin Judkins |
| The Swiss cardiologist credited with the first successful PTCA was | Andreas Gruentzig |
| The surgical shunt for palliative treatment of congenital pulmonary arteries was developed by the pediatric cardiologist | Helen Taussig |
| In 1895 X rays were discovered by | Wilhelm Roentgen |
| In 1959 the first selective coronary angiography was performed at Cleveland Clinic by | Mason Sones |
| Dr. Kanji Inoue is credited with the development in 1985 of | Balloon mitral commissurotomy |
| Werner Forssman was the first person to | Place a catheter inside a living human heart, his own |
| Which event came latest in the history of invasive cardiology? | Development of the drug eluting stent |
| At Cleveland Clinic in 1967, Dr Rene Favaloro performed the first | Saphenous vein bypass graft |
| In 1970 doctors Swan and Ganz developed the first | Thermodilution cardiac output catheter |
| In 1953, who developed the percutaneous vascular access technique involving a double arterial wall puncture? | Seldinger |
| In 1964 dr. Charles Dotter first attempted transluminal angioplasty using: | Dilators |
| Steam autoclave sterilization of surgical instruments was developed in the 1870s by whom? | Robert Koch |
| The only treatments available for myocardial infarction wear oxygen, morphine and nitroglycerin until heart attacks were stopped by | Intracoronary thrombolysis in 1978 |
| Claude Bernard is credited with first use of the term: | Cardiac catheterization |
| When did Claude Bernard first used the term of cardiac catheterization in his recording of the ventricular pressure is in a horse? | 1844 |
| The first accurate description of the circulation of blood through the heart was published in 1628 by | William Harvey |
| In 1870 this German physicist developed a method of determining cardiac output based on arterial venous oxygen difference | Fick |
| The formula for valve area was developed in 1951 by: | Gorlin and Gorlin |
| Who invented the first floor of scope in 1897 | |
| Edison | |
| The angiographic contrast developed in the 1920s, that made cardiac angiography safe is based on | Iodine |
| Whats 10 square Johnson and Johnson responsible for creating | Palmaz-Schatz |
| Inoue | Balloon catheter |
| Kurt Amplatz |