The Surgery That Gave Hope for `Blue Babies';At Johns Hopkins 50 Years Ago, a New Approach to Congenital Heart Defects Was Born

The Washington Post | December 6, 1994| | Copyright

It seems hardly possible that 50 years have passed since a pale and frightened 15-month-old girl was wheeled into Operating Room 703 at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore to undergo a procedure that would make medical history.

The date was Nov. 29, 1944. In Europe, men and armor were being put in place for the Battle of the Bulge, in which 81,000 Allied servicemen were to die. But in the operating room at Johns Hopkins that day a child lived, and her survival was to give hope to thousands of other "blue babies" with congenital heart defects.

The child, Eileen Saxon, was born prematurely ...

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