Multiple choice

First Performance of ' blue baby' operation was by --

  1. Bhanu Athaiya

  2. J.L Nehru

  3. P.B Shelley

  4. Drs. Helen Taussig and Alfred Blalock
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D Correct answer
Explanation

Drs. Helen Taussig (pediatric cardiologist) and Alfred Blalock (surgeon) developed and performed the first 'blue baby' operation in 1944 at Johns Hopkins Hospital. This procedure corrected tetralogy of Fallot, saving infants from cyanotic heart disease.

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