William Thornton Mustard
William Thornton Mustard ( born August 8, 1914 in Clinton, Canada, † December 11, 1987 in Naples, Florida ) was a Canadian physician and cardiac surgeon. In 1949 he was one of the first, an operation with a mechanical heart pump and a biological lung in a dog by led the " Banting Institute ". He developed two surgical techniques that have been named after him: the "Mustard operation," which is used in orthopedics to treat Hüftschäden for polio sufferers and the "Mustard cardiovascular procedure" for correction of transposition of the great arteries, a congenital heart defect ( " blue baby syndrome " ), which is used in thousands of children around the world.
Life
William Mustard was born the fourth of five children of the married couple James Thornton Mustard and Pearl, nee Macdonald. His father survived the 1939 sinking of the British passenger ship Athenia passenger. In 1937, he completed his medical studies at the University of Toronto. This was followed by each year's internship at the Toronto General Hospital and in surgery at the Hospital for Sick Children, before becoming a fellow at the New York Orthopedic Hospital. In 1940 he returned to Toronto and completed a six-month training in the sections Surgery, Pneumology and neurosurgery.
World War II
In 1941 he joined the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps, where he served initially as First Lieutenant and rose to the rank of Major. During the Second World War, he took repeated before surgery, the attention was. So he headed an operation that helped to get a soldier limbs with severely damaged arteries, instead of amputating. In 1944 he undertook a leg operation on a soldier, for which he was later awarded the Order of the British Empire. In 1941 he married Elise Dunbar Howe († 1979), and together they had seven children, including twins Susan and Shirley.
Work at a children's hospital
After the end of World War II Mustard returned to Toronto and was for six months senior physician at the Hospital for Sick Children. Then he worked for a year at the " New York Orthopedic Hospital ," before he took a job as a surgeon in 1947 at the Hospital for Sick Children. In Baltimore attending, one month at the surgeon Alfred Blalock. In 1957 he was appointed Head of the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery. 1976 Mustard retired.
William Mustard died in 1987 of a heart attack.