@George-K said in Dr. Scott Smith paralyzed himself:
@Mik said in Dr. Scott Smith paralyzed himself:
Wow. First heart cath. Talk about going where no man has gone before.
It's really an amazing story. At the time, there were no "heart catheters" per se. He used a catheter used for urologic procedures.
he was the first to develop a technique for the catheterization of the heart. This he did by inserting a cannula into his own antecubital vein, through which he passed a catheter for 65 cm and then walked to the X-ray department, where a photograph was taken of the catheter lying in his right auricle.
That occurred to me. "Say...what should we try this with?". The tech is so sophisticated today.