The presence of President Kennedy standing close by, “did not change our actions,” Dr. Bernhard became part of the medical team caring for Patrick, he brought the baby into the hyperbaric chamber, joined by a respiratory specialist, an anesthesiologist, a nurse, and a medical technician. Ryan’s book “Patrick Bouvier Kennedy: A Brief Life That Changed the History of Newborn Care.” Bernhard was in his laboratory “minding my own business,” he recalled in a 2013 interview for Michael S. On the day he was called on to help save Patrick Kennedy, Dr. Bernhard and his colleagues also adapted for surgical use an adhesive that allowed surgeons to paste up, rather than stitch, incisions in the heart and blood vessels during operations. Some of his research focused on the development of the left ventricular assist device, which can be implanted in the chests of patients to help weakened hearts pump blood.Īmong many other innovations he helped pioneer early in his career was a light that, attached to a probe, illuminated the inside of a heart during surgery. Her father, she added, “was very sure of who he was and why he was here.”
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