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Reminds me of Robert Liston and his 300% mortality surgery: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMra1202392 https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMra120
by jbandela1 4y ago
Reminds me of Robert Liston and his 300% mortality surgery:
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMra1202392 https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMra1202392
Liston operated so fast that he once accidentally amputated an assistant’s fingers along with a patient’s leg, according to Hollingham. The patient and the assistant both died of sepsis, and a spectator reportedly died of shock, resulting in the only known procedure with a 300% mortality.
- JackFr 4y agoTwenty five seconds to amputate a leg with knives and handsaws. That is amazing.
- Someone 4y agoAnd reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Liston https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Liston, he didn’t even did battlefield surgery. I wonder how he got the experience. https://www.civilwarmed.org/surgeons-call/limbs/ https://www.civilwarmed.org/surgeons-call/limbs/: “Surgery was performed expeditiously and amputation was the usual operation when the extremity had been injured. An amputation took only a few minutes. When the surgery for one patient was completed, another patient was waiting for the operating table. The amputated limbs, at times, accumulated in piles near the operating table before they could be disposed of. This was a gruesome sight and caused comments by uninvolved observers. Such piles of limbs were known to have existed as early as 1811, described by a British officer at a British hospital in France during the Napoleonic wars, at a time when surgery was being done without anesthesia”
- the_af 4y agoWow! Though Wikipedia asserts the case is most likely apocryphal.