Infant surgery and diagnostic echo: The evolving surgeon–cardiologist relationship

This is a personal narrative about the co-evolution of diagnostic echocardiography and infant cardiac surgery as experienced at Boston Children's Hospital in the 1970s. Both disciplines were experiencing exciting innovations throughout the world, but this snapshot of one institution's experience illustrates how they were interrelated. Such is my rationalization for the apparent self-absorption and tunnel-vision that follows.
Source: Progress in Pediatric Cardiology - Category: Cardiology Authors: Tags: Editorial Source Type: research