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This wasn't the first open heart surgery... opening/repairing the pericardium is not open heart surgery. Even in the wikipedia article, it specifically says "heart surgery." In the cited sources from wikipedia, the listed first 'open heart surgery' isn't until 1952.
I knew something was weird when I read your title, because that and the machine for heart-lungs in 1953 are always taught as huge leaps.
Ah I did not know the difference, you are correct
https://columbiasurgery.org/news/daniel-hale-williams-and-first-successful-heart-surgery
Edit I fixed the title thank you
It's not a big deal, just one of those things that was jarring to read because I knew I had heard it differently in the past. It's more irritating to me that I knew the 'open heart surgery' thing well, and hadn't heard about this. Shows what some people are concerned with.