Peter Allen (13 December 1921 to 17 November 2014) was a Canadian surgeon who played a leading role in improving the techniques of cardiac surgery. Together with Dr. Philip Ashmore, Dr. W. G. (Bill) Trapp and Dr. Ross Robertson, he performed the first open heart operation in British Columbia on 29 October 1957 at Vancouver General Hospital. The team closed an atrial septal defect in a nine-year-old patient, John Evans, using cardiopulmonary bypass.
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was a Canadian surgeon who played a leading role in improving cardiac surgery techniques
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played a leading role in improving cardiac surgery techniques
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played a leading role in improving cardiac surgery techniques
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