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In this introduction I apologize for being unashamedly nationalistic, for while open heart surgery is very properly a worldwide affair and is particularly the result of North American skill, determination and investment, we in Britain can claim a useful share in its pioneering, particularly in regard to cardiopulmonary bypass and anaesthesia. If we take our starting-point from the first clinical use of a heart-lung machine by Clarence Dennis and others in 19511, you will note that Britain is represented by the sixth recorded case in the world and the fourth survivor (Table 1).
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Melrose, D.G. (1981). Historical review and introduction. In: Longmore, D.B. (eds) Towards Safer Cardiac Surgery. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8048-8_17
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