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St Luke's Cardiac History Timeline with Photos, 1903-2003

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This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Aurora St. Luke’s Medical Center at Advocate Aurora Health Institutional Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Aurora St. Luke’s Medical Center Books, Documents, and Pamphlets by an authorized administrator of Advocate Aurora Health Institutional Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Hospital had Three Hospital. the General local another medical Malone changed mansion city’s Hanover Milwaukee. added for in St. %iJvai 19 1903 1903 Luke’s next caring expanded

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a and War St. moved was 1941 the served sign until side. on Luke’s on in to The human heart works 24-hours-a- day, seven-days-a-week to pump One Pace at a Time blood throughout the body. Before the 1950s, there was little to be done when a patient developed an irregular heartbeat. The first pacemakers that were developed in the early 1950s were large and bulky and they stimu lated the heart by using electrodes placed on the chest. In 1960, the first totally implantable pacemaker was developed, giving patients liberty from the large external pacemaker units. During the mid-to-late 1960s, “demand” pacemakers were intro- Implantable Pacemaker duced, providing stimulation only from 1961-62 when necessary. All new pacemakers today are “demand” models.

FirstSucce:. OpenHe.rt Aortic Valves In 1952, Dr. F. John Lewis, )r. C1u L 1IutiILl. an uniican ‘.1H•g:’oiL L.ic’VCi()pC.i a plai c an American surgeon, peilormed the first e - --- ‘ ak to ftI)L11r dulflagcci , [%4x . , - successful open heart surgery in the United Ic)i1IL’ ‘ tI\C Lfl 1)) I. 4. \ It dcinoitt-atcd tot States on five-year-old Jacqueline Johnson.

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•: 1953 marked IBM’sdevelopment of the first heart-lung “:iE’0i IiiitctioialI no ,7 machine. Surgeons who were performing open heart ‘44:.4 rHfici:l ‘)dy 1irt. :‘‘ surgeries were faced with the problem of how to stop -. --—- ea’. PhYsicians USC htIt ncehanieit alves and h!fh)Lic:jf the heart from beating, yet UI\CS, SLiCi as thvs floi igs tI()tCifle keep blood flowing through- vtI\ C Ut. t1t1L1tC t&Xti1 ..kflt)l beaus. out the rest of the body. The heart-lung machine solved that problem.

n December 19.55, St. Luke’s purchased the tte’s first heart pump, the precursor to the heartlung machine. The 6t fl machine was used duñng the rst opcn hear’ orocedure done n a Milwaukeearea hospital. veak cant transplaiit the niechanical in device device surgeons Adrian t.- left \/ADs En foday. I”elltflcltktr Dr. Anick known developed primary St. St. Some 1960-1979 Patients 1965. pumping Derward ventricular Luke’s Luke’s. effectively to are to was VADs Kantrowitz in might tunction N. Drs. to for Aurora St. help surgically and specialty 1968. who a PtI111PS Leptey implant into ability partial performing Luke’s arc In Michael the whose a assist say are Health diseased ‘otk Assist 1 independently. typically one 960, state’s that became - waiting used ofa that a artificial implanted was device, hearts mechanical on [)el3akey of care coronary help Medical Dr. heart Heart a heart. 1 its the person first heart Device In implanted 960 the sapenous “A the fbr A4 are fliaintaifl own. Derward or 1 heart. He Midwest’s that and 967, man a cardiac first The Midwest’s too VAD. was and valve heart artery. in was undoubtedly a a Center® of the who the vein 51 a medicine surgery, catheterization Lepley -year-old United Dr. year forward did top graft first Rene much Care cardiac heart performed a of joined Dr. States teamed to Dr. (a heart but changed he woman Favaloro, corporate thinker vein heart Dudley experiment Lepley. practiced.” good care perhaps transplant to care from St. program, Johnson undergo up care. centers. from the Merton in in Luke’s iii a was 290 the Dr. the surgeon with the history partnership was at Cleveland By born leg) with i: Johnson kind on world. open bypass and Knisely Dr. turning Dr. most 1 i.iLWAUh Betty in of 968, from at bypass Lepley’s Lepley the heart its heart surgery was Argentina, Drs. Iaterjoined procedure in surgery. the Milwaukee’s Dr. During procedures. surgery 1968, to Johnson It on Finest first transplant Dr. form DudleyJohnson, a Lepley but Dr. Took the I under St. the Rene E ..‘% and performing surgery parted mid-to-late Luke’s The St. V.A. Favaloro Jo the Lepley Luke’s pair Hospital, ways direction Betty “dynamic Lk Hour a also Two had resident staff 1960s, in NAJ s formed 1972. began and of heart duo” at F .,

Louis Washkansky, a 55-year-old South Mricaii grocer, had suffered a number of heart attacks that had almost totally incapacitated his heart muscle. In December 1967, during a five-hour operation, Di Christiaan Barnard successfufly replaced Washkansky’s diseased heart with the heart of a 23-year-old woman who died in a car accident. Dr. Barnard knew the surgery was a success when he first applied electrodes and Washkansky’s new heart began beating. Washkansky lived only 18 days after his transplant, dying of double pneumonia as a result of his suppressed immune system.

A family of Heart firsts

The Anickfamily has a history of cardiac firsts and strong ties to St. Luke’s Hospital. In 1961, Dr. Derward Lepley implanted Milwaukee’s first pacemaker in John Anick of West Allis.

Dr. Lepley, inspired by the experiments with heart transplants around the world, began to assemble a team to perform a heart transplant at St. Luke’swhen a good candidate arose.

The heart of Betty Anick,John’s wife, was

I Just Bebu Home £ga1 weakened by a viral infection and a transplant . Is a T.cat foi A/Ir. Anick Mi!wauke]urna1 was her only hope. On October 21 , 1968, Betty became the 64th patient to undergo a heart . transplant in the world and only the 7th or 8th in the iI):c United States. She went on to become the IP1():1i1t)r..; J world’s longest living female heart trans .. “, £j: plant survivor. Betty died in 1977, eight years and five months after her surgery.

In 1971 , John Anick became the first patient at St. Luke’sto be fitted with a device that transmitted an EKGreading via radio waves to a monitor at the -.. ; nurse’s station. w:;;;•: ______

Elvirna Filiner was the 5econd person to receive a heart transplant at St. Luke’s. Fillner died 25 days after surgery. As a result, St. Luke’s physicians suggested that an active transplant program at the hospital should be delayed because a solid research program hadn’t yet been established to support it. :“‘ ;eceived Transplant 25 Days Ago HEARTRECIPIENTDIESF

Expanding Elvirna Fillner’s surgery Heart Care Horizons Expansion in the 1970s continued to position St. Luke’s at the forefront of Milwaukee heart care. A neonatal intensive care unit was added in 1970. In 1972, St. Luke’s broke ground on an

— . addition that would be named , hi honor of Merton Knisely. The Knisely Building, which opened in late 1975, contained specialty intensive care units and cardiac care units. In . I while celebrating the Knisely Building 197$, Construction of the . ‘l 50th anniversary of the Lutheran Hospital Association’s purchase of St. Luke’s, construction The dedication of the new Knisely Building began on the Walter Schroeder Pavilion, which would house the emergency department, surgical care and radiation therapy.

Extending the Life of Pacemakers The development of pacemakers took another leap forward with the

in 1 These the development of the lithium battery 975. batteries extended life of pacemakers to 10 or more years. Anglo plasty Angioplasty is a standard therapy for people with clogged . N) arteries. During angioplasty, a balloon catheter is inserted into the clogged artery and gently inflated, reopening the , clogged passage to restore normal blood flow. Dr. Richard Myler In May 1977, Drs. Andreas Gruentzig and Richard Myler performed the first human coronary balloon angioplasty during a bypass surgery in San Francisco. Angioplasty equipment In September 1977, in Zurich, Dr. Gruentzig performed an angioplasty on a patient who was fully awake.

Eleven years after the first angioplasty was performed, a new development forever changed the procedure coronary stents were used for the first time in 1987.A stent is a wire mesh tube used to prop open an artery that’s recently

been cleared using angioplasty. By the mid-to-late 1990s, stents became a commonplace part ofthe angioplasty procedure. By 1997, one million angioplasties had been performed worldwide. .-. . . and patient 1980—2003 Artificial Hearts of Gold

In 1982, Dr. Willem DeVries implanted the world’s first Jarvik-7 heart in 61-year-old Barney Clark. After the surgery, Clark was bed-bound and attached to a washing machine-sized air compressor that powered his artificial - heart. He suffered a number of strokes before he died :-7heart and Barney ciark 112 days after his implantation. Heart transplant goes well at St. Luke’s In 1984, St. Luke’s performed heart transplant surgery for the first time since the death of Elvima Filiner in 1970. The transplant on 38-year-old Frank Kritter was a , success and once again St. Luke’s was performing heart transplants. ranñtter

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Squeeze of hand gladdens family In April 1986, St. Luke’s received approval from the Food and Drug - : : SHt- Administration to use the Jarvik 7 artificial heart On November 2] 1986 , ‘ %_ Z i Drs AlfredTector and Terence Schmal successfully implanted the jarvik 7 heart % k?qJ :;:‘- into Ronald Smith. The artificial heart sustained Smith’s life until a donor heart RonaWSmfth was found and successfully implanted on November 26, 1986.

St. Luke’s Medical Center a C AuroraFlealthCar? St;Luke’s I&Among The First I A Year of Change To Use New Heart Attack Drug

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more efficientlyand effectively Mwas5ee testinel for their patients. Aurora In 1987, St. Luke’s Medical center was the first hospital in the Health Care was formed as a United States to use tissue plasminogen activator, or “tPA.” This clots that result of a merger in I 987 drug is a thrombolytic agent that dissolves the blood cause most heart attacks and strokes. Studies have shown that St. Luke’sSamaritan between tPA and other clot-dissolving agents can reduce the amount of Corporation and Mount damage to the heart muscle and save lives when administered Sinai Medical Center. within the first few hours of symptoms.

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Arteries_unplugged with laser In June 198%,St. Luke’s Niedical Center became the first hospital [Coronary:ii,—iaseijuj in the state to perform a laser Lz— angiop1asty The heat-producing . $ weIdsnn w laser smoothes out and the 1la11;e to the artery ivall, resulting in a widened artery and smooth arterial walls.

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attention in June 1989 when surgeons performed the plaque that narrow a patient’s arteries are “shaved” firstartherectomy in the United States on 58-year-old away and removed with a tiny vacuum. Heart Care Milestone neart transpiarn Medical center pertorms iuutn In September 1990, St. Luke’s Medical ne ft t enS ntenn*ltn ltl Wkt.SiS — ttyn n tt’t t in t t nn t nnt. I nnti (.‘flen Mlt**nknn nt-n5n n tn, nn .ne:ltn v—e’ CI3 S5C n “ ten5thoFunn øthe ‘“ I ;n S S th 5S Sn fnnnn nn C nnt tndn ct n;tS Center performed its 100th heart transplant nn S:n St ne LZ.CC( St eenn ne en nt he nnin ndnSnnS* — -i nn n frnn -tnn T:fr tnnn ne nt e d* nd n nit n *t nniht t tdnt nn netnnntn t nn nndtnnnnten tYCnnneitnt , nnnnd net the yen In tt j 4 nn t t. nt t,n . in nnn ntt nlnnnni tn nS n n t sn qn n nnd tn nnnn h*ntn on Annette O’Connell of Muskego. Doctors •n. lSnt n t in *nnt sin Int nS 5eeenn ene 2 o*SLnSe?%: Wn n t en fnn5et Annen in nw nne tn nn nntplnw*. —... —.‘——. .n nt Sne eSnj. tne and nurses commented that the biggest n . m betn ntnnhned Se yn : . np th n nen enSiquee :- • . advance since St. Luke’s first heart trans .., , n nt II plant on Betty Anick was the development

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In 2001, St. Luke’s became the first hospital in the nation to use microwave ablation for atrial fibrillation. Atrial fibrillation is a short

St.Luke’s Medical Center became the first circuit in the natural hospital in Wisconsin to send a patient home electrical system that makes with a semiautomatic defibrillator in July 1990. the heart beat. The 20-pound, typewriter-sized machine would of life: Home care allow Bruce Tronca’s family to shock his heart MiSnukee Jouenal back into a normal rhythm should he suffer a heart attack.

In 1991, St. Luke’sMedical Center became the first hospital in the area to begin using stents during angioplasty procedures. a Adding to heart care “firsts” St. Luke’s Medical Center was the first in the Midwest to implant Heartmate ventricular assist devices, or VADs in 1994. VADs are surgically BlOOdpump user_ is celebratina le implanted mechanical pumps that help at home with ki maintain the pumping ability of a heart . -- that can’t effectively work on its own. The Heartmate VAD was the first pneumatically driven pump. —

JbURt In 200 1, St. Luke’s was first in the Fia’% Midwest to do laparoscopic (“closed chest”) bypass surgery on 64-year- n old Lynn VanTassel. Traditionally, Sentinel open-heart surgery requires opening a patient’s chest by cutting through the breastbone, leaving an 8- to 10- Natio:aI l)oetorcomph’tesrtgion hrst Recogq.:4tj dosed-chestb.passstargerv inch scai In stark contrast. a closed n : :. chest procedure, which utilizes the St. Luke’s Medical Center was named nt* : robotic surgical system, allows a one of the nation’s top I 0 centers in surgeon to perform the bypass heart transplant volume and has the l* through three tiny pencil-sized holes. best survival rate in 2001.

in 2001, St. Luke’s Medical Center was the first hospital in Milwaukee to use intravascular brachytherapy, or IVB. During IVB, a small amount of radiation is delivered to the narrowed artery, opening it up and restoring blood flow.

The Future of Heart Care In 2004, St. Luke’s Medkal Center will open the new Heart Care Center and Patient Tower. This newest addition to St Luke’sMedical Center is designed to accommodate continually advancing medical technology and will be home to some of the most innovative cardiac care programs and treatment options in the Midwest. St. Luke’s Medical Center is finding better ways to care for heart patients. This new center will allow St. Luke’sto continue bringing world-class heart care to every person who needs it. Alleducation, prevention, diagnostic and treatment services—both for inpatient and outpatient care—willbe available under one roof.