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Cushing and the treatment of brain wounds during World War I: Historical vignette
Ist Teil von
Journal of neurosurgery, 2011-06, Vol.114 (6), p.1495-1501
Ort / Verlag
Charlottesville, VA: American Association of Neurological Surgeons
Erscheinungsjahr
2011
Quelle
EZB Free E-Journals
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Harvey Cushing, perhaps the most important founder of American neurosurgery, was an Army neurosurgeon in France from 1917 to 1918. Over a 3-month period in 1917 he and his team operated on 133 soldiers with a brain wound. The operative mortality rate for their last 45 patients was 29%, considerably lower than the usual postoperative mortality rate of approximately 50% for those with a brain wound. This accomplishment was lauded at the time and eventually, for some, it was Cushing who was responsible for lowering the postoperative mortality rate of brain wounds during World War I. As the decades passed he was eventually credited as the “originator of brain wound care.” This report shows that these attributions are misplaced. Cushing merely followed the enlightened surgical precepts of the time developed by Continental (European) surgeons. It also examines Cushing's writings to ascertain how these misperceptions concerning his originality might have been generated.