Forssmann
Americannoun
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An appalled colleague fought to remove the catheter but was unable to do so before Forssmann pushed the catheter all the way into his heart and proved the procedure wouldn’t kill a patient.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 23, 2017
Werner Forssmann had a plan — a plan he knew his superiors would never approve.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 23, 2017
Dunn moves on to more recent, more astounding advances, like German surgeon Werner Forssmann feeding a catheter up his own arm vein and into his heart in 1929.
From Slate ● Feb. 2, 2015
Secretly one night Dr. Forssmann punctured a vein in his arm and persuaded a fellow resident to start working a tube into it.
From Time Magazine Archive
The therapeutical value of such practices is not yet known, but Dr. Forssmann thinks that such probing can introduce certain medicaments directly to the heart better than the blood will carry them there.
From Time Magazine Archive
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