Friday 5 December 2014

Researchers and inventors in the field of surgery

*Moshe Gueron best known for his pioneering research about human heart influences in    result of scorpion sting.

*Svyatoslav Fyodorov (1927–2000), creator of radial keratotomy

*Gavril Ilizarov a Russian orthopedic surgeon who invented the procedure to lengthen or  reshape limb bones.

*Lars Leksell, neurosurgery, inventor of radiosurgery

*Joseph Lister, discoverer of surgical asepsis

*Norman Bethune - Canadian thoracic surgeon and humanitarian, early proponent of  universal health care and inventor of the first practical mobile blood transport unit.

*John Heysham Gibbon invented the heart-lung machine.

*William Stewart Halsted is remembered for his emphasis on aseptic technique during  surgical procedures.

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