#American #physician who founded #Pediatric #Cardiology. She pioneered using #X-rays and #fluoros…
#American #physician who founded #Pediatric #Cardiology. She pioneered using #X-rays and #fluoroscopy to identify #heart defects in #newborns. With surgeon Alfred Blalock, she developed a #surgical procedure for treating #BlueBabySyndrome.
After 1944, when the first #Blalock-Taussig operation was developed, many blue babies were saved from invalidism or death. The Blalock-Taussig #shunt (a surgical shunt made between the #pulmonaryartery and the #aorta as #treatment for #tricuspid and #pulmonary atresia) is named for her.
In the early 1960s, Taussig was a major person in revealing and stopping the harm caused by the #sedative drug #thalidamide, which when taken by #pregnant woman caused terrible #deformations of their to newborn children.
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