Surgical History

Question 1

Identify the following:
First to use antiseptic
(carbolic acid)

Answer 1

History

Lister (British surgeon)

Question 2

First to advocate surgical

gloves

Answer 2

Halsted (made by GOODYEAR®)

Question 3

Father of antiseptic

surgery

Answer 3

Lister (1827–1912)

Question 4

Father of American

neurosurgery

Answer 4

Harvey Cushing

Question 5

Developer of vascular

grafts

Answer 5

DeBakey (he hand-sewed them!)

Question 6

Developed electrocautery
for surgery with Dr.
Cushing

Answer 6

Bovie (1928)

Question 7

The Mayo Brothers’

scrub nurse

Answer 7

Sister Joseph (of St. Mary’s hospital)

Question 8

Developed the cardiopulmonary

bypass

Answer 8

Gibbon

Question 9

1st Renal transplant

Answer 9

1954; Murray

Question 10

1st CABG

Answer 10

1962; Sabiston

Question 11

1st CEA

Answer 11

1953; DeBakey

Question 12

1st Heart transplant

Answer 12

1967; Barnard

Question 13

1st Artificial heart valve

Answer 13

1960; Starr

Question 14

1st Liver transplant

Answer 14

1963; Starzl

Question 15

1st Total parenteral nutrition

TPN

Answer 15

1968; Rhoades

Question 16

1st Vascular anastomosis

Answer 16

1902; Carrel

Question 17

1st Lung transplant

Answer 17

1964; Hardy

Question 18

1st Pancreatic transplant

Answer 18

1966; Najarian

Question 19

1st Heart-lung transplant

Answer 19

1982; Reitz

Question 20

1st AAA Rx

Answer 20

1951; Dubost

Question 21

First lap chole

Answer 21

1987; Mouret and Dubois in France

Question 22

First appendectomy

Answer 22

1848; Hancock

Question 23

First gastric resection

Answer 23

1881; Billroth

Question 24

First lap appy

Answer 24

1983; Semm (GYN DOCTOR!)

Question 25

Who was the only surgeon to

win the Pulitzer Prize?

Answer 25

Cushing (for his biography on Osler)

Question 26

Which surgeons have won

the Nobel Prize? (9)

Answer 26

Kocher 1909 (thyroid surgery)
Gullstrand 1911 (ophthalmology)
Carrel 1912 (transplantation/vascular
anastomosis)
Bárány 1914 (inner ear disease/vestibular
disease)
Banting 1922 (insulin)
Hess 1949 (brain physiology)
Forssman 1956 (cardiac catheterization)
Huggins 1966 (oncology)
Murray 1990 (kidney transplant)

Question 27

When was the Dakin

solution developed?

Answer 27

When was the Dakin

solution developed?