Surgeon on first mechanical heart patient
- Title
- Surgeon on first mechanical heart patient
- Genre
- Interview
- TX Date
- 12 Oct 1994
- Year of production
- 1994
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- Duration
- 00:00:20
- Description
- The world’s first recipient of a mechanical heart left hospital today. Ex-movie stuntman Arthur Cornhill, 62, had the device fitted in August. Heart surgeon Frank Wells of the Papworth Hospital in Cambridgeshire, where the operation took place, says it’s still early days.
- Contributors
- Frank Wells
- Keywords
- Health; Surgery; Heart surgery; Heart transplantation; Papworth Hospital; Cambridgeshire; Surgeons; Arthur Cornhill
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LBC/IRN, "Surgeon on first mechanical heart patient". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/lbc/search/index.php/segment/0006200038012 (Accessed 18 Sep 2025)