William Paton Cleland
William Paton Cleland (born May 30, 1912 in Sydney , Australia , † March 29, 2005 in Andover (Hampshire) , England ) was an Australian doctor in Great Britain. He developed open heart surgery in the late 1950s. In 1952, together with Dennis Melrose, he was involved in the invention of the heart-lung machine , which they first used on humans in 1953 after extensive animal experiments.
Life
Paton was trained in Adelaide , where he graduated in 1934. In 1940 he married Norah Goodhart († 1994) and had three children. He moved to Brompton Hospital in Great Britain to deepen his knowledge as a simple doctor and surgeon . Paton later worked at King's College Hospital and Hammersmith Hospital . He headed the surgical department of the Institute for Diseases of the Chest in London between 1960 and 1977. During this time he carried out all open-heart surgeries for the Republic of Iceland , for which he was awarded the Order of the Hawk by their government . In 1964 he received the from the Finnish governmentOrder of the Lion of Finland (rank of commander ). From 1978 to 1983 he was a co-editor of the Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery .
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Obituary in the British Medical Journal , 2005, 330: p. 1212.
- ^ Obituary in the Independent here online
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| SURNAME | Cleland, William Paton |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Australian doctor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 30, 1912 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sydney , Australia |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 29, 2005 |
| Place of death | Andover, Hampshire , England |