{"title":"Donald McRae","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"cada-segundo-conta","title":"Every second counts","description":"New York, June 29, 1966. At Maimonides Hospital in Brooklyn, surgeon Adrian Kantrowitz prepares to lift a monumental burden—fraught with risk and history. Head of the medical team seeking to perform the first human heart transplant, he is about to attempt a previously unthinkable act. Kantrowitz knows the myths and the warnings. Aristotle established the belief that \"of all the organs, the heart alone cannot sustain a serious injury.\" Ovid was equally emphatic: no man can heal a damaged heart. The heart is mysterious and sacrosanct. Adrian Kantrowitz is not alone. He is just one of an exceptional quartet of cardiac surgeons who, from 1958 to 1968, ventured into the depths of this uncharted terrain. Everything Norman Shumway, Richard Lower, Christiaan Barnard, and Kantrowitz envisioned comes to life in EVERY SECOND COUNTS. Donald McRae recounts the efforts made at several research centers by men who grasped the historic impact of being the first surgeon to successfully transplant a human heart. McRae not only tells the incredible story of South African physician Christiaan Barnard, who, upon accomplishing the feat, became an international celebrity. He also illuminates the careers of Kantrowitz—the first to utilize several mechanisms that aid the heart's function and are still widely used today—and of masters Richard Lower and Norman Shumway. The author recounts the struggle to overcome public fear of the unknown and even the antipathy of colleagues who engaged them in explosive confrontations over the bodies of donor and recipient patients. Such contrasting emotions characterize EVERY SECOND COUNTS, created from interviews with the American surgeons—and with close relatives and members of the late Chris Barnard's team. Ambition and envy, compassion and resentment, dedication and desperation, glory and infamy color this story. In Brooklyn, Cape Town, and Palo Alto, Kantrowitz, Barnard, and Shumway had precious little time to save a life—and become the first. This incredible clash of fates has gone largely unrecorded, until now.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47176293286140,"sku":"9788501074324","price":84.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/c3f23ba0ffb9a730871b9c40268a9022_8e12b830-c412-4a09-a043-d7229b76d0c5.jpg?v=1778312736"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.record.com.br\/en\/collections\/donald-mcrae.oembed","provider":"Editora Record","version":"1.0","type":"link"}