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Cushing was an innovator but not par-ticularly inventive. As such, he repudiated the sets of ‘Cushing’s Brain Instruments’ sold by Codman & Shurtleff during and after the war as unauthorized knock-offs. Eponymous discoveries Cushing’s reflex came about from Harvey Cushing’s studies of the brain’s reaction to compression, whilst
Harvey Williams Cushing (April 8, 1869 – October 7, 1939) was an American neurosurgeon, pathologist, writer, and draftsman. A pioneer of brain surgery, he was the first exclusive neurosurgeon and the first person to describe Cushing's disease .
Jan 17, 2020 · This paper seeks to analyze the decisions Cushing made with the challenging case of HW, an adolescent boy with a craniopharyngioma (CP) involving the third ventricle. Cushing’s earlier failure to successfully remove two similar lesions alerted him to the proximity of HW’s tumor and the hypothalamus.
- Ruth Prieto, José María Pascual
- 2021
Oct 24, 2016 · Early career. Dr Cushing began his medical career as an intern in 1895 at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) spending a year in the surgical service. An intern, as opposed to an extern, would live and work in the hospital for the year on minimal wage and for long hours.
Dec 1, 2001 · Cushing described basophilic adenomas of the pituitary associated with Cushing disease and described Cushing syndrome—the clinical effects of hyperadrenalism. In 1915, shortly after the outbreak of World War I, Cushing served in the Harvard Unit at Neuilly, France.
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Feb 12, 2016 · Cushing and a friend, Amory Codman, developed a system for the continuous recording of temperature, pulse, and respiration on a flow chart throughout an operation. This allowed the anesthetist and surgeon to tell, at a glance, the condition of the patient.
