Cardiac Catheterization
One of the greatest developments in cardiology in 20th
century came from Germany in 1929, when Werner
Forssman, a young surgery resident, performed the first
catheterization of the living human heart on himself.
Forssman’s goal was to find a safe way to inject drugs
into the right atrium for cardiac resuscitation.5 The use
of cardiac catheterization was further improved by Andre
Cournand and Dickinson Richards in 1941. They used
this procedure to detect faults in the mechanical function
of the heart.6,7 For this great work, these three men were
One of the greatest developments in cardiology in 20th
century came from Germany in 1929, when Werner
Forssman, a young surgery resident, performed the first
catheterization of the living human heart on himself.
Forssman’s goal was to find a safe way to inject drugs
into the right atrium for cardiac resuscitation.5 The use
of cardiac catheterization was further improved by Andre
Cournand and Dickinson Richards in 1941. They used
this procedure to detect faults in the mechanical function
of the heart.6,7 For this great work, these three men were
- duly awarded the Nobel Prize in 1956
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