The Great American Neurosurgeon Richard J Barohn MD Gertrude and Dewey Ziegler Professor of Neurology The University of Kansas Medical Center Harvey Cushing MD 18691939 Born in Cleveland ID: 709588
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History of Neurology
Harvey Cushing MDThe Great American Neurosurgeon
Richard J. Barohn, MDGertrude and Dewey Ziegler Professor of NeurologyThe University of Kansas Medical CenterSlide2
Harvey Cushing MD
1869-1939
Born in Cleveland Undergrad –Yale (1891); Medical
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Harvard (1895)Intern- MGH; Surgeon Resident- John Hopkins under HalstedMet Osler there (“latch key” access to Osler's hand)Travel:studied in Bern/Liverpool with SherringtonPractice in BaltimoreThen: Associate Professor Surgeon John Hopkins & head CNS surgery Developed operating on CNS pts under anesthesia 1911- Surgeon-in-chief Peter Bent Brigham Hospital 1912-Proffesor of Surgery HMSWWI-served in Europe; rank of Colonel; numerous medalsTreated Osler’s fatally wounded sonReturned to HMS 1919Yale 1937-death 1939Wrote bio Osler- Pulitzer Prize (1925)His bio written by Fulton Slide3
Harvey Cushing MD
(1869-1939)He considerably improved the survival of patients after difficult brain operations for intracranial tumors
He used X-rays to diagnose brain tumorsHe used electrical stimuli for study of the human sensory cortex
He played a pivotal role in development of the
Bovie
electrocautery tool with William T. Bovie, a physicistHe was the world's leading teacher of neurosurgeons in the first decades of the 20th centuryCo-invented blood pressure measuring devise with Scipione Riva RocciCushing Disease- hyperadrenalismCushing Reflex- slow heart rate & high ICPCushing Triad with high ICP-irregular respirations , bradycardia, systolic hypertension Meningiomas (1938) The Pituitary Body and its Disorders (1912)In 1988, the United States Postal Service issued a 45 cent postage stamp in his honor, as part of the Great Americans seriesSlide4
Harvey Cushing’s Publications
Surgery of the Head1910
The Pituitary Body and its Disorders 1912
Meningioma
1938Slide5
William Osler, the Man
by Harvey Cushing
1920Slide6
The Life of Sir William Osler
, 2 vols. (1926)by Harvey Cushing(Pulitzer Prize Winner)Slide7
The Life of Sir William Osler
, 2 vols. (1926)by Harvey Cushing(Pulitzer Prize Winner)