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About 327,000 appendectomies were performed during U.S. hospital stays in 2011, a rate of 10.5 procedures per 10,000 population. ... Harry Hancock performed the first ...
In 1878, Groves performed Canada's first suprapubic lithotomy, in a tavern in Guelph, Ontario. [2] [5] [7] At the time, bladder stones were extracted through the perineum, but this route was not suitable for this patient as he weighed over 300 pounds (140 kg). Groves made an abdominal incision to access the patient's bladder and extracted six ...
Claudius Amyand (c. 1680 – 6 July 1740) was a French surgeon who performed the first recorded successful appendectomy. Amyand was born around 1680, the son of Isaac Amyand and Anne Hottot in Mornac, Saintonge, France. As Huguenots, the Amyands fled to England following the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685 and settled in London. [1]
1879. After becoming the first to diagnose the location based on neurological findings alone, Scottish surgeon William Macewen (1848–1924) performed the first successful non-primary (trephined) brain tumor removal, pioneering brain surgery. 1880. German surgeon Ludwig Rehn performed the first thyroidectomy. 1882.
On 13 October 1804, Hanaoka performed a partial mastectomy for breast cancer on a 60-year-old woman named Kan Aiya, using tsūsensan as a general anaesthetic. This is generally regarded today as the first reliable documentation of an operation to be performed under general anesthesia.
Of the 578 patients who died, 404 (69.9 percent) did so between 24 hours and 30 days following surgery (high 74.2 percent, middle 68.8 percent, low 60.5 percent). Patient safety factors were suggested to play an important role, with use of the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist associated with reduced mortality at 30 days.
The world's first replantation was performed in May 1962 by a team of chief residents led by Ronald Malt at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Everett Knowles, a 12-year-old boy, had attempted to hop a freight train when he fell and was thrown against a stone wall, severing his right arm cleanly at the shoulder.
On 25 November 1884 after English physician Alexander Hughes Bennett (1848-1901) used Macewen's technique to locate it, English surgeon Rickman Godlee (1849-1925) performed the first primary brain tumor removal, [26] [27] which differs from Macewen's operation in that Bennett operated on the exposed brain, whereas Macewen operated outside of ...