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Hemostasis has been a major risk in the surgical field, causing Halsted to preach for the need for better control of bleeding to improve the morbidity and mortality many surgeons faced at the time. This problem, while combated by suturing methods for many, remained an issue in the neurosurgical field. Dr.
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May 2013
Madigan Army Medical Center Surgery, Tacoma, WA, USA.
This Historian's Address, presented at the North Pacific Surgical Association 2012 meeting, held in Spokane, Washington, on November 9, 2012, briefly reviews the life and surgical contributions of the inventor William T. Bovie and his collaboration with Dr Harvey Cushing, which led to the widespread acceptance of surgical electrocautery for dissection and hemostasis.
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April 2005
Department of Neurological Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
For his pioneering spirit, definitive work, and unparalleled devotion to conquering neurosurgery's toughest obstacles, Harvey Williams Cushing inarguably has earned the title, "The Father of Neurosurgery." His revolutionary incorporation of electrosurgical techniques in neurosurgery was not exceptional, but part of a pattern of recognizing, embracing, and establishing the use of medical technologies with great potential. Until 1910, Cushing had systematically reduced neurosurgery's primary complications--infection and the effects of intracranial pressure--to decrease mortality rates.
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