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. 2018 Dec:120:96-99.
doi: 10.1016/j.wneu.2018.08.159. Epub 2018 Aug 30.

Dominique Jean Larrey (1766-1842) and His Contributions to Military Medicine and Early Neurosurgery

Rebecca C Ramdhan  1 , Rabjot Rai  1 , Katherine N Brooks  2 , Joe Iwanaga  3 , Marios Loukas  1 , R Shane Tubbs  4
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Dominique Jean Larrey (1766-1842) and His Contributions to Military Medicine and Early Neurosurgery

Rebecca C Ramdhan et al. World Neurosurg. 2018 Dec.

Abstract

Dr. Dominique Jean Larrey was a pioneer in the field of military surgery. His creative innovation and drive to improve the quality of medical services available to those injured during war guided his achievements in medicine. Dr. Larrey has often been referred to as "the father of emergency medical services" and "the father of modern military medicine." His contributions to medicine continue to live on in common procedures and healthcare systems today, such as aspiration of pericardial effusion and drainage of hemothorax and empyema. Based on his own writings, he treated multiple cases of intracranial injury, making him an early, but often forgotten, pioneer of neurosurgery.

Keywords: Biography; Dominique Jean Larrey; Emergency medicine; History; Military medicine; Neurosurgery.

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