Blue Baby and Acute Coronary Revascularization

by Tracy Berg, MD

Getting to know Ralph Berg, the pioneering open-heart surgeon, was not easy. Only after Tracy’s gentle but persistent campaign did Berg finally reveal to his niece the hidden story motivating so much of his later work: the story of Jason, his youngest son. But Ralph Berg’s own story began many decades before Jason's birth. The Berg family’s early years in America instilled in Ralph an immense respect for the sanctity of life and hard work. He became a doctor in just six years while World War II raged on and quickly became fascinated with the human heart. After his chest residency, Ralph assembled a remarkable heart and research team that helped bring open-heart surgery and associated advanced surgical procedures on blue babies to Spokane, Washington, in 1959. Then, in 1969, with the medical community on the cusp of discovering the cause and treatment of heart attacks, Jason was born to Ralph and Mary Berg—a doomed blue baby. Learn how Ralph Berg sought to save his son and how he and Dr. Everhart developed the lauded Spokane Experience protocol that put the city years ahead of its time in terms of medical response and treatment of heart attacks. Witness the joy he shared with Jason and his family. Blue Baby and Acute Coronary Revascularization is a powerful story about hope, innovation, and the love of family.

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