Personal details
Full Name:
- Brian Gerald Barratt-Boyes
Lifetime:
- 13 Jan 1924–8 Mar 2006
Biography
Brian Barratt-Boyes
At Green Lane Hospital Barratt-Boyes pioneered new surgical techniques involving the replacement of defective heart valves.
Read more...Events In History
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3 September 1958First open-heart surgery in NZPioneering heart surgeon Brian Barratt-Boyes performed the surgery using a heart-lung bypass machine. The procedure, at Green Lane Hospital in Auckland, was performed on an 11-year-old girl with a hole in her heart. Read more...
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Main image: Brian Barratt-Boyes stamp
Stamp depicting Sir Brian Barratt-Boyes and his life-saving heart surgery on children, issued in 1995.