• Dr. Vivien Theodore Thomas (August 29, 1910 – November 26, 1985) was an American laboratory supervisor who in the 1940s developed a procedure used to treat...
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  • his research and laboratory assistant Vivien Thomas and pediatric cardiologist Helen Taussig, the Blalock–Thomas–Taussig shunt, a surgical procedure to...
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    PMC 5535574. PMID 28701598. Partners of the Heart: Vivien Thomas and His Work with Alfred Blalock, by Vivien T. Thomas (originally published as Pioneering Research...
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  • Vivian (and variants such as Vivien and Vivienne) is a given name, and less often a surname, derived from a Latin name of the Roman Empire period, masculine...
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  • made-for-television biographical drama film about the black cardiac pioneer Vivien Thomas (1910–1985) and his complex and volatile partnership with white surgeon...
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    Vivien Leigh (/liː/ LEE; born Vivian Mary Hartley; 5 November 1913 – 8 July 1967), styled as Lady Olivier after 1947, was a British actress. She won the...
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  • a Blalock-Thomas-Taussig shunt) suggested by pediatric cardiologist Helen B. Taussig and administered by Alfred Blalock, with Vivien Thomas, who had perfected...
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    Williams Cushing and Walter Dandy, cardiac surgery by Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas, and child psychiatry by Leo Kanner. Johns Hopkins Children's Center...
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  • medical school. African-American instructor and laboratory supervisor Vivien Thomas was instrumental in developing and conducting the first successful blue...
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  • procedure known as the Blalock-Thomas-Taussig shunt. The procedure was developed by Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas, who were Taussig's colleagues at...
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    portrayal of Detective Sgt. Lucas in The Woodsman. For his portrayal of Vivien Thomas in HBO's film Something the Lord Made, he was nominated for an Emmy...
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    Taussig, surgeon Alfred Blalock, and surgical technician Vivien Thomas, the Blalock-Thomas-Taussig shunt was created. Dr. Taussig had recognized that...
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    events and sports, as well as art battles and dance-offs. Thomas College was named for Vivien Thomas, the surgical technician who was the driving force behind...
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    (43 min.) and excerpts/readings by authors. Retrieved 2016-08-17. Smith, Thomas (December 14, 2009). "Unique Perspective – 'Candlelight' at Disney's Epcot"...
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    conducted by surgeon Alfred Blalock and cardiologist Helen B. Taussig, with Vivien Thomas also providing substantial contributions and listed as an assistant...
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  • Johnson as William Tillman Tom Kenny as Robert Peary Alphonso McAuley as Vivien Thomas Alanah McClanahan as young Mae Jemison Nika Williams as Josephine Baker...
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    heart surgeon and civil rights activist. On February 4, 1980, he and Vivien Thomas were the first to successfully implant an automatic defibrillator in...
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  • Villegas Castrejón, Mexican surgeon and pioneer in electron microscopy Vivien Thomas, developer with Alfred Blalock and Helen B. Taussig of the first congenital...
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    septostomy (then less precisely called a septectomy) was developed by Vivien Thomas in a canine model and performed in humans by Alfred Blalock. The Rashkind...
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    unjustified, and he could not continue. Alfred Blalock, Helen Taussig, and Vivien Thomas performed the first successful palliative pediatric cardiac operation...
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  • Thomas Blanchard Stowell Wilma Subra Sunil Kumar Ahuja Pearl Swanson Randy Sweeney Thomas W. Swetnam Doris Taylor Bonnie C. Templeton Vivien Thomas Benjamin...
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    1980 at Johns Hopkins Hospital by Dr. Levi Watkins Jr. assisted by Vivien Thomas. Modern ICDs do not require a thoracotomy and possess pacing, cardioversion...
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    Cotton", presented by Destination Freedom Biography portal The Knick Vivien Thomas Although a half dozen biographical dictionaries place Daniel Hale Williams's...
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  • pornographic producer Vivien Thomas (1910–1985), American surgical technician and medical researcher Walter Thomas (disambiguation) Ward Thomas (television executive)...
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    William Longmire, Denton Cooley, and Blalock's experienced technician, Vivien Thomas in 1944 at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Techniques for repair of congenital...
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  • Shoes Susan Lynn Meyer 2017 Tiny Stitches: The Life of Medical Pioneer Vivien Thomas Gwendolyn Hooks A Poem for Peter: The Story of Ezra Jack Keats and the...
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    oxygen to their tissues, hypoxemia. She worked with Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas at the Johns Hopkins Hospital where they experimented with dogs to look...
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    Himself HBO James Brolin Ronald Reagan The Reagans Showtime Mos Def Vivien Thomas Something the Lord Made HBO Alan Rickman Dr. Alfred Blalock 2005 (57th)...
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  • assistant Vivien Thomas conducted pioneering research leading to the first cardiothoracic surgery for infants born with "blue baby syndrome". Thomas and Blalock's...
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  • Tsung O. (February 2006). "Hamilton Naki and Christiaan Barnard Versus Vivien Thomas and Alfred Blalock: Similarities and Dissimilarities". The American...
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