Episode 79 - Cracking the Chest: The Brief History of Resuscitative Thoracotomy
There are few surgical interventions more dramatic than the thoracotomy - a desperate last-ditch effort to save a failing heart by manual compression. The history of the procedure is a fascinating one...
15 Maj 201928min
Episode 78 - Christiaan Barnard: The Surgeon Who Dared and Interview with Dr. David K. C. Cooper
This episode is a bit different than previous, in that the first part is a review of the life and work of the famous cardiac surgeon Christiaan Barnard, who performed the world's first human heart tra...
23 Mars 20191h 2min
Episode 77 - Frederick Salmon and the Founding of the St. Mark's Fistula Hospital
In this episode, we'll cover the life of English surgeon Frederick Salmon, his clashes with the medical establishment at the time, and his creation of a fistula hospital that eventually became St. Mar...
18 Feb 201916min
Episode 76 - the Bier Block
In this episode, we will cover the German surgeon August Bier, and his creation of both spinal anesthesia, and the eponymously named Bier block, used commonly today for regional anesthesia. We'll also...
14 Jan 201924min
Episode 75 - Percivall Pott and the Chimney Sweep's Cancer
In this episode, we'll cover the life of the 18th century English surgeon, Percivall Pott. This includes some of the numerous disorders named after him, and covers the first description of an associat...
11 Dec 201817min
Episode 74 - "Time me, gentlemen": The Legend of Robert Liston
In this episode, we explore the history of Robert Liston, considered "the fastest knife in the west end" of London, in an era before anesthesia. He was also famous for an operation with a 300% mortali...
19 Nov 201823min
Episode 73 - The History of the Lobotomy
In this episode, we'll cover the strange and sometimes disturbing history of psychosurgery, and in particular, the frontal lobotomy. We'll meet the Nobel Prize winning Egas Moniz as well as the physic...
1 Nov 201824min
Episode 72 - The History of Clubfoot
In this episode, we will follow the history of the treatment of clubfoot, from antiquity, through the Renaissance and into modern surgery. Interestingly, the thinking has swung from conservative treat...
8 Okt 201820min
