{"version":"1.0","type":"link","provider_name":"Hardcover","provider_url":"https://hardcover.app","cache_age":86400,"title":"Breakthrough!: How Three People Saved \"Blue Babies\" and Changed Medicine Forever – An Award-Winning Young Adult History of Vivien Thomas and a Historic Surgical Triumph","url":"https://hardcover.app/books/breakthrough","description":"In 1944 an unprecedented surgical procedure repaired the heart of a child with blue baby syndrome lack of blood oxygen caused by a congenital defect. This landmark operation opened the way for all types of open heart surgery.The team that developed it included a cardiologist and a surgeon, but most of the actual work was done by Vivien Thomas, an African American lab assistant who was frequently mistaken for a janitor.","author_name":"Jim  Murphy","author_url":"https://hardcover.app/authors/jim-murphy","thumbnail_url":"https://assets.hardcover.app/external_data/59337258/42f938e41fb20863b1725ffc5e40db7e8b1d5e79.jpeg","thumbnail_width":98,"thumbnail_height":127}