- How did Kocher reduce thyroid surgery mortality from roughly one in eight to under one percent?
Anesthesia and Surgical Technique
Pain control and methods in surgery.
- What was Carrel's triangulation method for suturing severed blood vessels back together?
- In what ways did Heymans's mapping of peripheral chemoreception influence modern anaesthesia and intensive care?
- How is cyanoacrylate adhesive used in modern surgery where sutures aren't practical?
- How did mapping different nerve fibre types change the development of anaesthesia and pain treatment?
- Why was curare, an arrow poison, useful for muscle relaxation during surgery?
- How did this trio's findings become the foundation for understanding anaesthesia and epilepsy?
- Why is a systematic review of unusual emergency-room cases genuinely useful to surgeons?
- What is the 'surgical team' model Brooks proposed as an alternative staffing structure?
- How did this operation change what reconstructive surgery could offer patients with severe facial injuries?
- What surgical problem prompted Thai hospitals in the 1970s to develop a systematic reattachment technique?
- How did the involvement of household animals complicate the reattachment surgeries?
- Why was the clinical guide considered a genuinely serious and useful contribution despite its unusual subject?
- What did Karen Pryor and Theresa McKeon's trial find when they applied clicker training to teaching surgical skills?