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RSI originated in the anesthesia literature to prevent aspiration in unprepped patients undergoing general anesthesia. From the first anecdotal reports of p-RSI in 1972, prehospital intubation has matured into widespread use. The often conflicting outcome data underscored the need to standardize the approach to p-RSI.
Dr. Vasilii Kolessov, a Russian cardiac surgeon, performed the first internal mammary to coronary artery anastomosis in 1964. Dr Rene Favaloro, a physician at the Cleveland Clinic, performed the first saphenous vein operation by harvesting a vein from a patients leg and bypassing the right coronary artery in 1967. Soon after Dr. Dudley Johnson in Milwaukee used the vein grafts to bypass the left coronary arteries.