Healers

Alfred Blalock

Surgeon

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Medicine Atlas. "Alfred Blalock." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://dev-medicine.interactiveatlas.org/healers/alfred-blalock.

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Medicine Atlas. (n.d.). Alfred Blalock. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://dev-medicine.interactiveatlas.org/healers/alfred-blalock

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@misc{medicineatlas-alfred-blalock,
  author = {Medicine Atlas},
  title = {Alfred Blalock},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://dev-medicine.interactiveatlas.org/healers/alfred-blalock},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

Alfred Blalock was an American surgeon most noted for his work on the medical condition of shock and on tetralogy of Fallot, commonly known as blue baby syndrome. With research and laboratory assistant Vivien Thomas and pediatric cardiologist Helen Taussig, he created the Blalock-Thomas-Taussig shunt, a surgical procedure that ushered in the modern era of neonatal cardiac surgery.

Facts

Birth Yearthe subject's own account

1899 1

Birth Datethe subject's own account

1899-04-05 1

Death Yearthe subject's own account

1964 1

Death Datethe subject's own account

1964-09-15 1

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1. Alfred Blalock (Wikipedia)

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Alfred Blalock was an American surgeon most noted for his work on the medical condition of shock as well as tetralogy of Fallot – commonly known as blue baby syndrome. He created, with assistance from his research and laboratory assistant Vivien Thomas and pediatric cardiologist Helen Taussig, the Blalock–Thomas–Taussig shunt, a surgical procedure to relieve the cyanosis from tetralogy of Fallot. This operation ushered in the modern era of neonatal cardiac surgery.

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