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PRITCHARD, Walter Herbert (1910 – 1982)

1910 – 1982

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

1947 CE

#2878.1

Ventricular fibrillation of long duration abolished by electric shock.

The first successful defibrillation of a surgical patient, with the chest opened, and the paddles applied directly to the heart. With H.S. Feil.