Carta Acesso aberto Revisado por pares

Henry T. Bahnson, Hopkins, and Harmonica

2004; Elsevier BV; Volume: 128; Issue: 6 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.jtcvs.2004.07.034

ISSN

1097-685X

Autores

Tsung O. Cheng,

Tópico(s)

Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation

Resumo

Like many of Henry T. Bahnson's surgical peers at Johns Hopkins who were cited in the in memoriam article by Griffith,1Griffith B.P. Henry T. Bahnson, MD (1920-2003): Himalayas of the mind—challenges and expectations.J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2004; 128: 1-3Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF Google Scholar I was privileged to be a close cardiology colleague of Hank at Hopkins. My association with Hank was primarily through my work in the cardiac catheterization laboratory at Hopkins. At that time, the cardiac catheterization laboratory was under the department of surgery because the laboratory was considered as a preoperative diagnostic facility before patients, young and old, were operated on for their congenital and acquired heart diseases by Blalock and associates. I was a fellow in the respiratory laboratory of the late Dr Richard L. Riley, who arranged with Blalock to let me work 1 day a week in the cardiac catheterization laboratory because Riley knew of my interest in cardiac catheterization. I still remember the few times that I needed some advice from Hank during cardiac catheterization of babies. I asked the nurse to page H.T.B. for me. She immediately tried to correct me by saying, “Do you mean H.B.T.?” H.B.T. stood for Helen B. Taussig, of the Blalock-Taussig operation, and H.T.B. stood for Henry T. Bahnson. Because the patient was a baby, it was natural for the nurse to think I wanted to speak to Helen B. Taussig rather than to Henry T. Bahnson. Because Griffith's article began and ended with a reference to Bahnson's harmonica, I wish to amplify a bit on Hank's association with this musical instrument. As Griffith1Griffith B.P. Henry T. Bahnson, MD (1920-2003): Himalayas of the mind—challenges and expectations.J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2004; 128: 1-3Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF Google Scholar mentioned, The Wall Street Journal in 1999 published an article titled “Of artificial hearts and artificial harps in a Pittsburgh laboratory,” with the subtitle “Cardiac surgeon and bioengineer study a harmonica virtuoso from inside his mouth.”2McGinley L. Of artificial hearts and artificial harps in a Pittsburgh lab: cardiac surgeon and bioengineer study a harmonica virtuoso from inside his mouth. Wall Street Journal. 1999 Feb 8:A1, A10.Google Scholar The reporter mentioned Hank's application of his artificial heart experience to that of artificial harps, more commonly known as the harmonica. Because many of your readers might not be familiar with publication number 250 in Hank's bibliography mentioned in Griffith's article, I wish to mention that the article by Hank was published in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (Figure 1).3Bahnson H.T. Antaki J.F. Beery Q.C. Acoustical and physical dynamics of the diatonic harmonica.J Acoust Soc Am. 1998; 103: 2134-2144Crossref PubMed Scopus (13) Google Scholar I suggest that everyone read the entire article to understand the history, physics, and physiology of the harmonica. As Hank said at the end of his article, “This helps keep the harmonica interesting, and indeed has helped to sustain its enduring prominence throughout the world.”3Bahnson H.T. Antaki J.F. Beery Q.C. Acoustical and physical dynamics of the diatonic harmonica.J Acoust Soc Am. 1998; 103: 2134-2144Crossref PubMed Scopus (13) Google Scholar

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