Innovations in congenital heart surgery

Pediatric heart surgery is still a young discipline. The first operations to treat congenital heart diseases were done in the early 1940s and its real expansion ensued after intra-cardiac procedures were feasible with acceptable risk following wider access to the use of cardio-pulmonary bypass machine. The first two decades of existence of this specialty saw a whirlwind of new procedures making it one of the most quickly evolving specialty....