Jeffrey Hartzler invented infarct angioplasty, a procedure where a blocked coronary artery is opened with a balloon during a heart attack.

“he invented infarct angioplasty that is somebody who's having a heart attack he had the sort of hutzpah to you know go in do an angiogram figure out which vessel was blocked open it up with a balloon and suddenly the pain goes away at the time it was radical this is 1980 and he took a lot of heat for that nationally at the meetings but it turned out you know to be a game-changing therapy announced the it's the standard across across the world for you know uh for treating angioplasty”