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Editorial
. 2025 Jul 29;52(2):e258632.
doi: 10.14503/THIJ-25-8632. eCollection 2025 Jul-Dec.

The Department of Cardiovascular Anesthesia of The Texas Heart Institute: An Informal History

John R Cooper Jr  1 , N Martin Giesecke  2
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Editorial

The Department of Cardiovascular Anesthesia of The Texas Heart Institute: An Informal History

John R Cooper Jr et al. Tex Heart Inst J. .
No abstract available

Keywords: Arthur S. Keats; CV anesthesia; History; The Texas Heart Institute.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflict of Interest Disclosure: John R. Cooper, Jr, MD, has no conflicts of interest. N. Martin Giesecke, MD, has no conflicts of interest.

Figures

Fig. 1
Fig. 1
Drs (A) Keats, (B) Cooley, (C) Slogoff, and (D) Girgis
Fig. 2
Fig. 2
Photograph of the Texas Medical Center in 1964, showing Texas Children's Hospital and St Luke's Hospital in the foreground and the section connecting them where the operating rooms were
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Fig. 3
Keats in the laboratory
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Fig. 4
The Baylor/Texas Children's Hospital/St Luke's cardiac surgery group circa late 1957, with (left to right) Joseph Latson, MD; unknown; unknown; Denton Cooley, MD; Yoshi Takao, MD; James Harberg, MD; Mary Martin, RN; unknown; Luis Soltero, MD; unknown; Arthur Keats, MD; and Daniel McNamara, MD
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Fig. 5
Dr Cooley operating in old room 1 at St Luke's/Texas Children's Hospital in 1961. Dr Keats is the anesthesiologist. Mary Martin is the perfusionist using the “Coffee Pot” oxygenator. Note the nurse with Dr Cooley's ledger book of recorded cases.
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Fig. 6
Arthur Keats and Jerry Strong anesthetizing a patient in old room 1 at St Luke's/ Texas Children's Hospital, circa 1965. The person at the head of the table is Cornelia Lukban, MD, Baylor College of Medicine's first Cardiovascular Anesthesia fellow.
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Fig. 7
Dr Keats and Phyllis Kolander, a longtime cardiovascular anesthesia laboratory technician, in Dr Keats's laboratory at The Texas Heart Institute
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Fig. 8
Stephen Slogoff, MD, with trainees
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