1945

Following misdiagnosis and death during surgery of one of his “blue babies” (who was found to have transposition of the great vessels rather than tetralogy), Blalock hires Richard Bing to organize world’s first diagnostic cardiac catheterization laboratory at Johns Hopkins (Fye 2, 113-114). Walt Lillehei returned from Europe and entered Wangensteen’s surgical training program at Univ. Minnesota (Miller, 29-32).