GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -John Kirklin and team to become the first to perform a successful series of open-heart surgeries, thus saving lives by means never before possible. On March 22, 1955, Dr. Kirklin performed the first open-heart operation at Rochester Methodist Hospital, affiliated with Mayo Clinic.

Detailed explanation-2: -The first successful open-heart surgery took place on Chicago’s South Side on July 9, 1893. The patient was James Cornish, a young man with a knife wound to the chest from a barroom brawl. The surgeon, who had gone into medicine because he disliked earlier work as a shoemaker’s apprentice, was Dr. Daniel Hale Williams.