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9780547821832, titled "Breakthrough!: How Three People Saved "Blue Babies" and Changed Medicine Forever" | Clarion Books, December 8, 2015, cover price $18.99

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Product Description: Vivien Theodore Thomas was an African-American surgical technician who developed the procedures used to treat blue baby syndrome in the 1940s. He was an assistant to surgeon Alfred Blalock in Blalock's experimental animal laboratory at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee and later at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland...read more

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9781464402104 | Enslow Elementary, September 1, 2013, cover price $10.53 | About this edition: Vivien Theodore Thomas was an African-American surgical technician who developed the procedures used to treat blue baby syndrome in the 1940s.

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9780766041400 | Enslow Elementary, September 1, 2013, cover price $25.27 | About this edition: Vivien Theodore Thomas was an African-American surgical technician who developed the procedures used to treat blue baby syndrome in the 1940s.

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Although a working janitor and not a trained medical doctor, Vivien Thomas directed Dr. Alfred Blalock through the first open-heart surgical procedure in the mid-20th century, gaining major respect in the process for his contributions to medicine and becoming a revered surgical instructor in his later years.

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9780766028494 | Enslow Elementary, September 5, 2007, cover price $23.94 | About this edition: 'Biography of Vivien Thomas, the mastermind behind open-heart surgery'--Provided by publisher.

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