A world authority on the use of X-ray movies to study artery changes in the beating human heart will be a featured speaker at the 14th annual meeting and scientific sessions of the Louisiana Heart Association in New Orleans, April 19-20.
He is Dr. F. Mason Sones Jr., a native of Mississippi, whose pioneer project in the development of heart movies at the Cleveland, Ohio, clinic has won acclaim in medical circles throughout the world.
EDr. Richard L. Fowler, president of the Louisiana Heart As-A sociation, said in announcing the! program, "Dr. Sones and his associates have developed a way to maneuver a special catheter into the mouths of the two main coronary arteries of the heart to inject dye which shows up on X-ray film. Movies are then taken at the rate of 60 frames a second and the image is amplified so that quite remarkable movies of the heart's own blood flow are produced."
Films Collected
' 'This had made possible a long-range collection of films at the Cleveland clinic of patients both before and after heart attacks which have shown how the heart often develops new secondary channels to supply blood to areas which have been damaged or starved of blood by clots in the main eoronaries."
Dr. Sones' lecture and. demonstration are scheduled at 2:10 p.in. Friday, April 19, at the LSU edical school auditorium, 1542 Tulane ave.
Dr. Fowler said "this and other scientific lectures by aut-of-state speakers and by a gifted group of Louisiana researchers and practitioners are part of a new format of two-day sessions to give the annual LHA meeting a maximum usefulness as professional education in the heart and blood vessel field."
The program chairman is tDr. Jorge I. Martinez-Lopez,, assistant
professor of medicine at LSU.
Other out-of-town visitors will be Dr. T. N. Jones, of Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, who will speak on heart attacks Saturday at 9:15 a.m. at the LSU auditorium, and Dr. John G. Smith, of North Carolina, vice-president of the American Heart Association, who will
speak at the LHA's annual luncheon meeting Saturday.
One-Day Seminar
Another feature of the annual meeting will be a one-day seminar on "The Heart in Industry," beginning at the Fontainebleau Motor Hotel, 4040 Tulane ave., Friday at 10:45 a. m.
Dr. Irving L. Rosen, New Orleans, program chairman, said "medical directors of some of the nation's largest industries will join with personnel managers, attorneys, vocational rehabilitation administrators, and physicians to discuss the increasingly important problem of finding means to return the cardiac to his most effective level in industry, society and family life."
A third phase of the LHA meetings will be a scientific session for nurses^ Saturday, April 20, at Veterans Administration Hospital, 1601 Perdido St., on "Nursing Care of Cardiac Surgery Patients." Dr.
F. Mason Sones, of Cardiology and
Department Cardiological
Laboratory, The Cleveland Clinic; 3:20 p. m,, question and
answer period; 3:30 p. m. "Prevention of Rheumatic Fever," Dr. Mervin W. Perdue, Alexandria, Louisiana; 4:05 p. m., ' 'Treatment of Sub acute Bacterial Endocarditis,'' Dr. David Buttross Jr., Lake Charles, La.;
4:25 p. m., "Constrictive Pericarditis," Dr. Oscar Alvarez, New Iberia, La.; 4:45 p. m. question and answer period.
Events Saturday
Saturday, April 20—9:15 a. m., "Some Observations on Myo-cardial Infarction," Dr. T. N. James, chairman, Section of Cardiovascular Research, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit; 10:15 a. m., question and answer period; 10:45 a. m., "Pediatric Syndromes, Genetics and Cardiac Disease," Dr. James L. Reynolds, assistant professor of pediatrics, Tulane University School of Medicine; 11:05 a. m., "Postpartal Heart Disease," Dr. J. Woodfin Wilson Jr., Shreveport, La.; 11:25 a. m. "Intractable Heart Failure," Dr. James A. Rogers, Sellers and Sanders Clinic, New Orleans; 11:45 a. m., "Use of Pacemakers in Complete A-VDR. T. N. JAMES
Block," Dr. Bertram A. Glass, instructor in surgery, LSU; 12:05 p. m., question and answer period; 12:30 p. m., annual meeting luncheon, Louisiana Heart Association, cafeteria, LSU School of Medicine.
The scientific program for nurses follows:
Saturday, April 20—-8 a. m,,j registration; 8:30 a. m., greet-1; ings, Dr. Richard L. Fowler,; president, Louisiana rieart As- j sociation; welcome, Miss Ange-; la Resar, R. N., associate chief,; Nursing Service, Veterans Administration Hospital; 8:45 a. m., introduction of film and speaker, Miss B.. Nordmann^ R. N., chairman, Planning Committee, Scientific Session for Nurses; film: "Development of the Normal Heart;''1 9 a. m., "Diagnostic Cardiac Procedures," Dr. James L. Reynolds, assistant professor of pediatrics, Tulane University School of Medicine; 10 a. m.; question and answer period; 10:30, "The Responsibilities of the Professional Nurse During Postoperative Care of Patients Who Have Cardiac Surgery," Mrs. Mary J. Campbell, PHOTO: DR. T. N. JAMES; DR. F. MASON SONES JR. DR. RICHARD L. FOWLER
