Dr helen taussig biography books

American cardiologist (–)

Helen Brooke Taussig (May 24, – May 20, ) was an American cardiologist, working in Baltimore and Boston, who founded the field of pediatric cardiology. She is credited with developing the concept for a procedure that would extend the lives of children born with Tetralogy of Fallot (the most common cause of blue baby syndrome).

This concept was applied in practice as a procedure known as the Blalock-Thomas-Taussig shunt.

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The procedure was developed by Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas, who were Taussig's colleagues at the Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Taussig was partially deaf following an ear infection in childhood; in early adulthood this progressed to full deafness.^[2] To compensate for her loss of hearing, she learned to use lip-reading techniques and hearing aids to speak with her patients.

Taussing also developed a method of using her fingers, rather than a stethoscope, to feel the rhythm of their heartbeats.^{[3]& Helen B. Taussig - Wikipedia QOQEW}