ATS
HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS
QUICK SEARCH:   [advanced]


     

This Article
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Personal Folders
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow Permission Requests
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via HighWire
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Parsonnet, V.
Right arrow Articles by Bernstein, A. D.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Parsonnet, V.
Right arrow Articles by Bernstein, A. D.

The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, Vol 48, 738-740, Copyright © 1989 by The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

ARTICLES

Transvenous pacing: a seminal transition from the research laboratory

V Parsonnet and AD Bernstein
Department of Surgery, Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, New Jersey 07112.

In the late 1950s, nonsurgical catheter therapies for the treatment of various disorders did not exist, although surgery was at its highest level of development in the classic sense: extirpation of organs, incision and drainage, diagnostic biopsy. Today we live in an era of diagnostic and therapeutic methods based on catheters: observation, aspiration, drainage, stretching, and manipulation by means of relatively atraumatic tubes. The development of catheter techniques has spawned undreamed-of specialties, industries, and professional societies. Although catheters had been used before then in research laboratories, Furman's clinical application of electrode-tipped venous catheters in treating patients with complete heart block and Stokes- Adams seizures represents a turning point. This advance may be regarded as the catalytic and seminal event for the growth of catheter technologies, which are so prominent in the world of medicine today, and their application to many fields of medicine and surgery.


This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 CirculationHome page
K. Jeffrey and V. Parsonnet
Cardiac Pacing, 1960–1985 : A Quarter Century of Medical and Industrial Innovation
Circulation, May 19, 1998; 97(19): 1978 - 1991.
[Full Text] [PDF]


HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS
ANN THORAC SURG ASIAN CARDIOVASC THORAC ANN EUR J CARDIOTHORAC SURG
J THORAC CARDIOVASC SURG ICVTS ALL CTSNet JOURNALS
Copyright © 1989 by The Society of Thoracic Surgeons.