Test your knowledge of Jeffersoniana with a monthly quiz - prepared by Beth Bensman, University Archivist and Special Collections Librarian.

 

In 1953 a Jeffersonian launched the modern era of high-technology medicine by performing the first successful open-heart operation in the world at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. Using the invention pictured here, he repaired an interatrial septal defect in the heart of the 18-year-old patient. While the operation lasted only 26 minutes, it was the first time in the history of surgery that a patient's heart and lung functions were maintained entirely by a machine.

Can you name the Alumnus?

1. George J. Haupt
2. Willard M. Drake
3. John H. Gibbon
4. William D. Delancy

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• TJU Archives and Special Collections
• Philadelphia Historical Digital Image Library (PHDIL)

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