Henry Cuthbert Bazett

Biography

• Born 25 June 1885 Gravesend, England
• Educated at Oxford University: BA 1908; MB BCh. 1911; MS 1913; MD 1920
• 1910 – Physiology demonstrator St Thomas’s Hospital
• 1912-1914 Radcliffe travelling Fellowship, Harvard University
• 1914-1918 – medical officer in the British Army (RAMC); Order of the British Empire (OBE); Military Cross
• 1919 – Lecturer in Physiology, Oxford University
• 1921 – Professor of Physiology, University of Pennsylvania (holding chair until his untimely death)
• 1941-43 – Visiting professor of medical research, University of Toronto (aviation research)
• 1946 – Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE)
• 1950 – President of the American Physiological Society
• Died 11 July 1950. Died on a ship bound for the International Physiological Congress in Copenhagen

Medical Eponyms

Bazett formula (1920)

Bazett formula ‘corrects’ the measured QT interval to a value (QTc) attributable to a heart rate of 60 bpm. Thus providing a QT interval value that a particular patient would theoretically have if their heart rate was 60 beats/min

Major Publications

• Bazett HC. An analysis of the time-relations of electrocardiograms. Heart. 1920;7:353-70.

References

• Roguin A. Henry Cuthbert Bazett (1885-1950)–the man behind the QT interval correction formula. Pacing Clin Electrophysiol. 2011 Mar;34(3):384-8. [PMID 21091739]
• Obituary: H.C. Bazett. Br Med J 1950;2:220
• Obituary: Henry Cuthbert Bazett. The Lancet, Volume 256, Issue 6625, 309
• Biography: Bazett, Henry Cuthbert (1885 – 1950). Plarr’s Lives of the Fellows Online. Royal College of Surgeons of England.
• Henry Cuthbert Bazett. 22nd APS President (1950). American Physiological Society
• Edholm OG. Prof. H. C. Bazett. Nature. 1950 Dec 2;166(4231):933-4
• Burns E. The QT Interval. LITFL
• Eponymythology. History of the Electrocardiogram. LITFL