Angelo Acts Dato was a distinguished cardiac surgeon, whose figure is inspired by Dr. Alberto Ferraris, played by the actor Matteo Martari in the fiction “Hearts”, broadcast on Rai Uno and starring Pilar Fogliati and Daniele Pecci. By virtue of the debut of this new television series, in which Carmine Buschini (Leo of “Braccialetti Rossi”, ed.) Also stars, it becomes interesting to deepen the figure of one of the luminaries of international medicine, capable of writing pages of history and science fundamental to save lives.
As we read on the site of the outpatient clinic named after him (“ActisMed”), Actis Dato was born in Caluso, in the province of Turin, in 1923 and ended his days in the Savoy capital in 2012. His biography reveals that, in over half a century of career, he performed 32 thousand interventions, paving the way for this pioneering discipline; indeed, “He was the creator of a series of patents, including the 1964 thermal exchange vascular probe, widely used in many cardiac surgeries of those years; a hand-cranked heart defibrillator from 1967, a heart valve with magnetic disc from 1976 and the cordis auxilium for the treatment of cardiogenic shock from 1975 “.
ANGELO ACTIS DATO: NOW THE CHILDREN FOLLOW THE PATERNAL FOOTSTEPS
Of Angelo Actis Dato it was written: “What characterized and qualified the professor’s work was his general medical preparation first, then cardiological. Therefore cardiac surgery technical, together with its organizational and human capacity “. His office was also the headquarters of the Italian Institution of Cardiac Surgery and in 2012, reports “ActisMed”, “The sons Guglielmo, cardiac surgeon, Alessandra, cardiologist, and Alberto, vascular surgeon, decided to keep the premises of the study for welfare purposes”.
Therefore, the possibility of adhering to the new regulatory plans of the Ministry of Health “To create a structure capable of providing excellent healthcare services, expanding the number of medical and surgical specialties through collaboration with highly professional doctors, keeping the study of Professor Actis Dato among the reference points of the regional healthcare panorama “.
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