Top Results for Thoracic Surgery

American surgeon at Johns Hopkins who pioneered aseptic technique, introduced rubber surgical gloves, and established one of the first formal surgical residency programs in the United States in the 1890s.

William Thomas Green Morton (1819-1868) was an American dentist who played a pivotal role in the introduction of anesthesia to medical practice. In 1846, Morton successfully demonstrated the use of ether as a surgical anesthetic during a public operation at Massachusetts General Hospital, where a tu...

German surgeon who built a negative-pressure chamber in 1904 to allow chest surgery without lung collapse, an innovation that founded modern thoracic surgery.

Vivien Thomas was an African American surgical technician and researcher who made foundational contributions to cardiac surgery alongside Alfred Blalock at Vanderbilt University and Johns Hopkins. Despite lacking a medical degree and facing racial discrimination that limited his official role and pa...

Thomas Fogarty was an American surgeon whose invention of the balloon embolectomy catheter revolutionized surgical procedures. The catheter allows for the targeted removal of blood clots during surgery, primarily benefiting surgeons and hospitals treating conditions like stroke and pulmonary embolis...

Alfred Blalock was an American surgeon whose work significantly advanced the fields of surgical shock treatment and cardiac surgery. While working at Vanderbilt University and later Johns Hopkins, he proved that fluid replacement was critical for treating traumatic shock, a finding that saved many l...

Cameron Haight was an American thoracic surgeon associated with the University of Michigan. In 1941, he performed the first successful primary repair of esophageal atresia with a tracheoesophageal fistula in a newborn, directly joining the separated portions of the esophagus and closing the abnormal...

Joseph Lister was a British surgeon whose innovations revolutionized medical practice in the 19th century. He pioneered the use of antiseptics – primarily carbolic acid – during surgery to combat infection. This dramatically lowered mortality rates and fundamentally changed surgical procedures. His...

Doctor John is a South Korean television drama set in the late nineteenth century. The story centers around a brilliant surgeon, Park Gi-hun, who abandoned his career to live a simple life after a tragic event. He’s drawn back into the world of medicine by a talented and determined young doctor, Hon...

Edward D. Churchill was a prominent 20th-century American surgeon specializing in thoracic and general surgery. His work at Massachusetts General Hospital focused on developing innovative surgical techniques for treating lung diseases, particularly segmental resection of the lungs. Churchill’s contr...

Nip/Tuck is a television drama series focusing on the professional and personal lives of two plastic surgeons in Los Angeles. The show depicts complex surgical procedures alongside interpersonal relationships involving patients, colleagues, and romantic partners. It explores themes of identity, tran...

Thomas W. Shields was an American thoracic surgeon and medical editor closely associated with the textbook General Thoracic Surgery. Through successive editions, the reference brought together material on diseases and operations involving the lungs, esophagus, chest wall, mediastinum, and related st...

Richard H. Overholt was an American thoracic surgeon known for advancing operations on the lungs during the twentieth century. His work helped establish pulmonary resection, including the anatomical removal of individual bronchopulmonary segments, as a practical alternative to removing an entire lun...

Nikolai Sergeyevich Korotkov (1874–1920) was a Russian surgeon who graduated from the Imperial Military Medical Academy in Saint Petersburg. In 1905 he described the auscultatory sounds heard during blood pressure measurement using a Riva-Rocci cuff and stethoscope, now known as Korotkoff sounds. Th...

Crawford Williamson Long was an American physician recognized for using ether as a surgical anesthetic in Jefferson, Georgia, in 1842. He administered ether while removing a tumor from a patient's neck, several years before ether anesthesia was publicly demonstrated in Boston. Long did not publish h...

Egyptian-American thoracic surgeon at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center renowned for research on surgical staging and outcomes in lung cancer treatment.

David Sugarbaker was an American thoracic surgeon known for treating malignant pleural mesothelioma, a cancer affecting the lining around the lungs. He developed specialist programs that combined major surgery with chemotherapy and radiation, and he advocated extrapleural pneumonectomy for carefully...

Francis Daniels Moore was an American surgeon and a prominent professor at Harvard Medical School, where he served as surgeon-in-chief at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. He significantly advanced the understanding of metabolic responses to surgical trauma and physiological stress. In 1959, he published...

Thomas J. Fogarty (born 1934) is an American surgeon and inventor whose balloon embolectomy catheter, introduced in 1963, enabled minimally invasive removal of blood clots from vessels. The Fogarty catheter became one of the most widely used surgical instruments worldwide and is credited with saving...

Hostages is an Israeli political thriller television series created by Rotem Shamir and Omri Givon that premiered in 2013. The plot centers on a prominent Israeli surgeon whose family is kidnapped, with the captors demanding that she assassinate the Prime Minister during a routine surgical procedure...

Joseph P. Vacanti is an American pediatric surgeon and researcher associated with Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He is known for foundational work in tissue engineering, including research on biodegradable scaffolds designed to support cells as they form replacement tissu...

Miami Medical was an American medical drama broadcast by CBS between April 2nd and July 2nd, 2010. The series centered on the daily operations and personal relationships of a group of trauma surgeons. Its storylines explored both clinical cases and the individuals involved within the medical setting...

James Marion Sims was an American surgeon whose work on vesicovaginal fistula helped establish surgical techniques later used in gynecology. He developed operations to repair the abnormal connection between the bladder and vagina during the 1840s. Sims is often called a founder of modern gynecology,...