Medical advancements in the 20th/21st Century

• 1900’s
  • First electrocardiograph machine

• 1920’s
  • First modern respirator

• 1930’s
  • Artificial pacemaker invented
  • Kouwenhoven cardiovascular research

• 1940’s
  • First kidney dialysis machine
  • Plastic contact lens created

• 1950’s
  • First artificial hip replacement
  • Artificial heart valve developed
  • First cardiac pacemaker
  • First successful open-heart bypass surgery
  • First human kidney transplant

• 1960’s
  • First totally internal pacemaker
  • Laser treatments made available for optic purposes
  • ICU was administered
  • Nuclear machine

• 1970’s
  • Soft contact lens
  • Physical therapy
  • CT scan introduced
  • First cochlear implant surgery

• 1980’s
  • MRI scanners
  • First permanent artificial heart implant
  • Deep-brain electrical stimulation system
  • First laser surgery on human cornea

• 1990’s
  • Human Genome Project
  • Radiosurgery created
  • Brachytherapy Remote Afterloader used to dissolve tumors inside-out
  • Stereotactic Needle Biopsy System to diagnose breast cancer