From discovering and developing the ‘Blue-Baby’ surgical procedures to various treatments of the traumatic shock, Blalock was befitted as one of the biggest names in medical institutions all over the world. Along with his surgical, technician friend, Vivien Thomas, Blalock evolved new, tetralogy surgical procedures and heart bypass techniques for infants that would eradicate the ‘Blue-Baby’ syndrome all together. With successful surgeries and accomplishments of saving countless lives on the battlefields, Alfred Blalock was the last word in the development of a new epoch of cardiac surgery.