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Werner Forsmann, winner of the Noval Prize in 1956
Recognized for contribution to development of cardiac catheterization method
Noval Physiology and Medicine Award Winner
The experimental process of cardiac catheterization is a bit unusual.
Briefly, it is as follows.

1. Animal testing pass
Werner uses a catheter that delivers drugs directly to the heart and is radio-opaque.
I thought it would be useful for sex dye injections, etc.
I proposed a cardiac catheterization procedure to my fellow doctors and Sunider, the head of surgery at the hospital at the time.
No
However, at the time, there was no mainstream academic view that the heart should not be touched, and it was not practical.
It is said that force stability must also be secured.
Schneider recommends conducting animal testing first.
After hearing everything, Werner believed that this was very safe and decided to pass.
2.
sylph experiment
Persuading the operating room nurse by explaining all experimental procedures and details
Of course, since the nurse is not supervising the necessary surgical instruments,
I needed it
After weeks of persuasion, the nurse helped with the experiment and at the same time became the first subject.
He even promised that he would become his own son.
At the time of the experiment, the nurse tried to sit on the chair, using the excuse of the side effects of local anesthesia.
Lay me down on the operating table
Preparing to tie a nurse to the operating table and cut the nurse’s left arm…
Pretend to give yourself local anesthesia
After making an incision in the person’s arm, a catheter is inserted.

Of course the nurse was startled and screamed, but her hands and feet were tied.
In the meantime, Werner is removing the nurse’s frame after administering contrast dye.
I’ve already done it, but there’s nothing I can do, so the two of us go to the X-ray room together.
3. Nobaek’s rules
When we were in the X-ray room, Werner’s friend, who heard the commotion, came and
Trying to pull out Turkle.
At the time, it was thought that if a foreign substance entered the heart, one would die, so I named my friend.
I was trying to save you
Werner tried to save his friend by giving him kick oil so he could not move.
After one
Take a picture of the tip of the catheter reaching the heart using an Ax label.

Schneider, who agreed with him above, was very angry after hearing the commotion.
However, it is said that it will help with clinical trials in the future.
At the time, he was 25 years old.
Afterwards, when accepting the Noville Prize in Medicine, he gave his acceptance speech with a catheter in place.
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