Intro to Surgery Flashcards
who’s regarded as the father of modern surgery?
Ambrose Pare, I treated him, god cured him
imhotep
FIrst physician
First depiction of surgery, 6th dynasty tomb
Ankh-Ma-Hor
represents a severing of the final link between the surgical thoughts and techniques of the ancients and the push toward a more modern era
Paré
Father of Abdominal Surgery
THEODOR BILLROTH
Billroth is also a classification of one of the organs in the abdomen
WILLIAM HALSTED
Father of Breast Surgery
CARL JOHANN AUGUST LANGENBUCH
Performed the first successful hepatic resection
PHILIPPE MAURET (1987)
First Laparoscopic cholecystectomy
F. PARODI (1991)
Robotic surgery
OPERATING THEATER
This is where surgery is done, it is a gallery, it is an upstaging of all the observants and this is how they taught surgery