A 16-year-old male patient who underwent bilateral modified Blalock-Taussig shunt operation at the age of 6 was admitted to our clinic with cyanosis. The oxygen saturation was 60% at time of admission. Echocardiography and computed tomography revealed situs solitus dextrocardia with concordant atrioventricular (AV) discordant ventriculoarterial relation and obstructed bilateral Blalock-Taussig ...

Using a novel noninvasive, visible-light optical diffusion oximeter (T-Stat VLS Tissue Oximeter; Spectros Corporation, Portola Valley, CA) to measure the tissue oxygen saturation (StO2) of the buccal mucosa, the correlation between StOz and central venous oxygen saturation (ScvO2) was examined in children with congenital cyanotic heart disease undergoing a cardiac surgical procedure. Paired StO...

Together with Alfred Blalock, Helen Taussig rose to fame because of the Blalock-Taussig shunt. This is a surgical procedure in children who suffer from hypoxia because of a congenital cardiac malformation. Because of this affliction, they are blue. Less known is the fact that dr. Taussig also played a crucial role in the prohibition of thalidomide in the USA, the drug that had been responsible ...

When the National Research Council initiated a set of experiments at Western Electric’s Hawthorne Plant in Cicero, IL in 1924, its objective was to answer a narrow question: does better lighting enhance worker productivity? The results of these experiments, however, have had a profound influence on research in the social sciences ever since. According to Ann B. Blalock and Hubert M. Blalock (19...