Surgical History Flashcards

Question 1

Q

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

Answer

A

History

Lister (British surgeon)

Question 2

Q

First to advocate surgical

gloves

Answer

A

Halsted (made by GOODYEAR®)

Question 3

Q

Father of antiseptic

surgery

Answer

A

Lister (1827–1912)

Question 4

Q

Father of American

neurosurgery

Answer

A

Harvey Cushing

Question 5

Q

Developer of vascular

grafts

Answer

A

DeBakey (he hand-sewed them!)

Question 6

Q

Developed electrocautery
for surgery with Dr.
Cushing

Answer

A

Bovie (1928)

Question 7

Q

The Mayo Brothers’

scrub nurse

Answer

A

Sister Joseph (of St. Mary’s hospital)

Question 8

Q

Developed the cardiopulmonary

bypass

Question 9

Q

1st Renal transplant

Answer

A

1954; Murray

Question 10

Q

1st CABG

Answer

A

1962; Sabiston

Question 11

Q

1st CEA

Answer

A

1953; DeBakey

Question 12

Q

1st Heart transplant

Answer

A

1967; Barnard

Question 13

Q

1st Artificial heart valve

Answer

A

1960; Starr

Question 14

Q

1st Liver transplant

Answer

A

1963; Starzl

Question 15

Q

1st Total parenteral nutrition

TPN

Answer

A

1968; Rhoades

Question 16

Q

1st Vascular anastomosis

Answer

A

1902; Carrel

Question 17

Q

1st Lung transplant

Answer

A

1964; Hardy

Question 18

Q

1st Pancreatic transplant

Answer

A

1966; Najarian

Question 19

Q

1st Heart-lung transplant

Answer

A

1982; Reitz

Question 20

Q

1st AAA Rx

Answer

A

1951; Dubost

Question 21

Q

First lap chole

Answer

A

1987; Mouret and Dubois in France

Question 22

Q

First appendectomy

Answer

A

1848; Hancock

Question 23

Q

First gastric resection

Answer

A

1881; Billroth

Question 24

Q

First lap appy

Answer

A

1983; Semm (GYN DOCTOR!)

Question 25

Q

Who was the only surgeon to

win the Pulitzer Prize?

Answer

A

Cushing (for his biography on Osler)

Question 26

Q

Which surgeons have won

the Nobel Prize? (9)

Answer

A

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

Q

When was the Dakin

solution developed?

Answer

A

When was the Dakin

solution developed?