Popularly known today for his bravura 30-second amputations and operations and its apocryphal 300 percent mortality (the patient, the assistant who lost a finger, and a bystander who died from shock from nearly being sliced by his errant scalpel), Liston had a substantive impact on surgical technique in his use of ...
He also slashed through the coat tails of a distinguished surgical spectator, who was so terrified that the knife had pierced his vitals he fainted from fright (and was later discovered to have died from shock). This episode has since been dubbed as the only known surgery in history with a 300 percent mortality rate.
The spectator fell over, dying immediately of fright. Though the assistant and patient survived the immediate procedure, they died not long after from infection. Thus, despite Dr. Liston's successes, he became the only surgeon in known history to have a 300% mortality rate from a single operation.
Robert Liston was known as the fastest knife in the west. He developed his technique over time, before anesthesia. Although this sounds crazy, it was for an excellent reason. The average surgeon would lose about 1 in 4 patients during operations as the pain and shock would kill.
Robert Liston (1794-1847) held a (well-earned) reputation as the fastest surgeon of his time.
the relative frequency of deaths in a specific population during a specified time, often cited as the percentage of human deaths during a public health crisis, or of wildlife deaths due to environmental perils: Patients over the age of 80 had the highest mortality rate during the last flu season.
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The most protracted operation reported lasted for 96 hours and was performed on 4-8 February 1951 in Chicago, Illinois, USA on Mrs Gertrude Levandowski (USA) for the removal of an ovarian cyst. During the operation her weight fell 280 kg (616 lb / 44 st) to 140 kg (308 lb / 22 st).
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The forgotten surgeon (Al-Zahrawi) his full name was Abū al-Qāsim Khalaf ibn al- 'Abbās al-Zahrāwī al-Ansari (936-1013). He was born in Medina Azahara, Al-Andalus (near present-day Córdoba, Spain). He as has been also describe as the father of surgery.
Akrit Jaswal became the world's youngest surgeon at 7 and has a 146 IQ. Akrit Jaswal was walking and talking by the time he was 10 months old. He started reading and writing by the age of two. He was reading Shakespeare, in English by the time he was five.