Alfred Blalock


Alfred Blalock (born April 5, 1899, September 15, 1964) is an American surgeon. Alfred Blalock was a professor at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. In 1938 he became chief surgeon of the Johns Hopkins University Hospital in Baltimore. He studied the posttraumatic shock. Alfred Blalock is one of the founders of cardiac surgery. He was the first to undergo a subclavian anatomy with a pulmonary artery in a patient with tetralogy of Fallot (the so-called Blalocka-Taussig syndrome). He and his colleagues collaborated on this method: surgical technician Vivien Thomas and cardiologist Helen Taussig. Authoritative control (person):

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