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Collection BerO : Olive Louise Berger Collection

Description

Key

103008

Reference Code Element

BerO

Type

Text

Dates

1927-1985, inclusive

Extent

1 linear foot

Creator

Personal name, Berger, Olive Louise

Administrative/Biographical History

Olive Louise Berger
25 Dec 1898-13 Jul 1981
Olive Louise Berger was born in Montclair, New Jersey. She graduated from the School of Nursing at Roosevelt Hospital in New York in 1920 and from the Johns Hopkins Hospital School of Anesthesiology in 1922. She was chief nurse anesthetist and director of the anesthesia school for nurses at the Johns Hopkins Hospital from 1931 until her retirement in 1969. Berger served as the first nurse to administer anesthesia during the famous "blue baby" operations performed by Alfred Blalock and Helen Taussig in the 1940s. In 1952, she was made an instructor in anesthesia in the school of medicine.

Chronology

Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1931-1969

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 1952-1981

Scope and Content

The Olive Louise Berger Collection focuses on her career as a nurse anesthetist at Johns Hopkins. It consists of detailed records of the administration of anesthesia to Alfred Blalock's patients, including three notebooks labeled: "Tetralogies," "Valvulotomies," and "P.O. Pneumonia." The notebooks describe early cases of cardiac surgery, including the first cases of surgical treatment of cyanotic congenital heart disease, and the first lung and mitral valve operation performed at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Also included are articles by Berger, a letter of recommendation written on Berger's behalf by Thomas Cullen, material concerning the Olive L. Berger Memorial Fund, and photographs of Berger and colleagues.

Language

English

Administration

Accession

1990-025

1983-043

Composed Of

Found 8 record(s)

Reference Code and Titlesort by Reference Code and Title ascending	Key (Collection)sort by Key (Collection) ascending	Dates	Record Levelsort by Record Level ascending	Hierarchysort by Hierarchy ascending
Berger Articles	356838	1948-1959	Folder	CollectionBerO- Olive Louise Berger Collection
Cullen, Thomas: letter of recommendation for Olive Berger	356858	May 25, 1928	Folder	CollectionBerO- Olive Louise Berger Collection
Hopkins history publications	356857	1927, 1939	Folder	CollectionBerO- Olive Louise Berger Collection
Olive Berger Fund	356859	1981-1985	Folder	CollectionBerO- Olive Louise Berger Collection
Patient Logbook: Tetralogies, Coaretations	356863	1944-1952	Folder	CollectionBerO- Olive Louise Berger Collection
Patient Logbook: Valvulatomies: Pulmonic, Mitrial, Aortic	356861	1949-1952	Folder	CollectionBerO- Olive Louise Berger Collection
Patient Record Book: PO Pneumonias	356862	1933-1940	Folder	CollectionBerO- Olive Louise Berger Collection
Photos of Berger and colleagues	356860	1927-1969	Folder	CollectionBerO- Olive Louise Berger Collection

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