My Heart Will Go On

The heart stopping story of the world

famous heart surgeon, Christiaan Barnard

By: Teisha T.

Where The Heart Is

Human Heart Diagram

Young At Heart

• Born in Beaufort West, South Africa on November 8, 1922.• Parents are Adam Hendrik

Barnard and Maria Elisabeth de Swart.• Attended the University of Cape

Town and the University of Minnesota.

Like A Surgeon

• Practiced heart transplants on animals. Mainly dogs.

• First patient to participate in heart transplant was fifty-five year old Louis Washkansky.

Change of Heart• The first human heart

transplant took place on December 3, 1967.

• Barnard led a thirty member surgical team.

• Louis Washkansky (the patient) died eighteen days later from double pneumonia.

Don’t Go Breakin’ My Heart

•2nd transplant took place two weeks later.

•The patient was Dr. Philip Blaiberg

•Blaiberg stayed alive for another eighteen months.

Heartbreaker

•Barnard decided to stop heart transplanting for a while so that more research could be done.

•Attempted a new technique called a double heart transplant on November 25, 1974.

•The patients were a ten year old girl and a fifty-eight year old man.

•The second attempt for a double heart transplant was in 1975.

The Heart of a Man

•Wonderful speaker by combining his directness, brilliant smile, and sense of humor.

•Hands were affected by painful rheumatoid arthritis.

•Retired early in 1983 at the age of 61.

•Gave him the chance to expand other businesses.

The Last Beat of My Heart

•Used his money and fame to benefit the unfortunate people struggling under apartheid in Africa.

•On September 2, 2001 in Paphos, Cyprus, Barnard died from asthma complications.