Requirements
Do You Need Schooling To Become A Surgeon?
What is Yes?
Surgeon that operates on a wider, broader spectrum than more specialized surgeons
What is a General Surgeon?
Small, sharp knives used to make precise incisions to begin a procedure.
What are Scalpels?
The Father of Modern Surgery
Who is John Hunter?
Eliot Cutler performed the world's first successful _____ Surgery
What is Heart Valve Surgery?
What Specific School Do You Need To Buy A Surgeon? (Think of: Music School and School of Law)
What is Medical School?
Surgeons that specialty focuses on the musculoskeletal system, including the bones, joints, ligaments, and tendons.
What is an Orthopedic Surgeon?
Used to grasp, hold, and manipulate tissues and other objects.
What are Forceps?
The pioneer of surgical asepsis
Who is Joesph Lister?
Philip Drinker invented the _____ to assist polio-paralyzed patients with breathing, saving lives during epidemics.
What is An Iron Lung?
A Program Future Surgeons Have To Take For 3-9 Years
What is a Residency Program?
These are surgeons who specialize in operating on infants, children, and teenagers.
What is a Pediatric Surgeon?
Used to stitch wounds and incisions back together.
What are Sutures and Needles?
Who is Dominique Larrey?
Denton Cooley implanted the first temporary ______, the Liotta heart, allowing a patient to survive until a human heart became available.
Surgeons have to have a _____ from the state to be a surgeon
What is a License?
This field of "Surgeon" involves the repair, replacement, and reconstruction of physical defects, including cosmetic and reconstructive procedures.
What is a Plastic Surgeon
Used in orthopedic and neurosurgery to cut or drill into bone.
What are Bone Saws and Drills?
A neurosurgeon who invented radiosurgery, a technique that uses focused radiation to treat brain conditions.
Who is Lars Leksell?
Around 30 CE, the encyclopedist Celsus described a method of dislocating the cataract to improve vision using a needle-like instrument.
What is Cataract Surgery?
Some Surgeon may pursue a _____ to get more specialized training
What is a Fellowship?
Surgeons that treat disorders of the central and peripheral nervous systems, including the brain, spinal cord, and cranial nerves.
What is a Neurological Surgeon?
Used to drive nails or screws into bones.
What are Surgical Hammers and Mallets?
A Greek surgeon famous for performing the first LASIK procedure on a human and developing Epi-LASIK.
Who is Ioannis Pallikaris?
_____ was first used for anesthesia by Dr. Crawford Long in 1842 and publicly demonstrated by William T.G. Morton in 1846 for the removal of a neck tumor.
What is Ether/Anesthesia?