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Forssmann

[fawrs-mahn, -muhn, fohrs-, fawrs-mahn]

noun

  1. Werner 1904–79, German surgeon: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1956.



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We read about Werner Forssmann, who attempted one of the first cardiac catheterizations in 1929.

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Forssmann threaded a thin tube through his arm until it pierced his right atrium.

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In 1929, Werner Forssmann, a German, famously risked his life when he put himself under local anesthesia, inserted a catheter into a vein on his arm and managed to thread it into his heart.

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Forssmann catheterized his own heart nine more times.

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Werner Forssmann had a plan — a plan he knew his superiors would never approve.

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