This is the Russian surgeon Dr. Leonid I. Rogosov during a very clever surgery:

 


This is the Russian surgeon Dr. Leonid I. Rogosov during a very clever surgery:

He was the team medic of the 6th Soviet Antarctica Expedition whose 14 members were preparing for hibernation in April 1961 at the newly opened Novolasarewskaya Research Facility in Queen-Maud-Land.

On April 27th, a typical winter storm hit the station and cut it off from the outside world. The meteorologists predicted a duration of several days to weeks.

On April 29th, Rogosov developed symptomps of an acute appendicitis. He treated it initially with high doses of antibiotics in the hope to delay the inflammation process until external help could reach the station.

On April 30th, his health condition deteriorated. Fever set in at 38° C and overall Rogosov felt weakness and increasing pain. In the afternoon, he decided to perform an Autoappendectomy, i.e. he planned to remove the appendix himself through a surgery.

After consulting the expedition leader and the central in Moscow, Rogosov received approval and prepared the surgery. He selected two assistants, the meteorologist and the station engineer.

He set up the theater in a room next to the canteen using two benches in order to create a half lying position for himself. At 2am on May 1st he started the surgery using a local anesthetics which helped for the initial cuts on the skin.

For the further process, he used adrenalin to keep control over the pain. In addition, due to the unfamiliar position and the use of mirrors, he at a certain point removed his gloves and used the desinfected hands to probe the abdomen for the appendix.

At about 4am - after some breaks due to exhaustion - he finally found the appendix and succesfully removed it. After cleaning and rinsing the wound with antibiotica and stitching the cuts, he finished the surgery at about 04.40am.

5 days later, all symptomps had ceased and after another 2 days the stitches were removed. On May 10th 1961, he resumed his job as team medic.

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