Contributions of Medieval Islamic Physicians to the History of Tracheostomy
03 medical and health sciences
Tracheostomy
0302 clinical medicine
Medicine, Arabic
Arab World
Physicians
Humans
Islam
History, Medieval
3. Good health
DOI:
10.1213/ane.0b013e3182884313
Publication Date:
2013-03-22T21:19:49Z
AUTHORS (9)
ABSTRACT
Tracheostomy was first described by Greco-Roman physicians, including Paulus of Aegina. Medieval Islamic clinicians extended the Greco-Roman ideas with substantial contributions to the field of surgery, including tracheostomy. Although Al-Zahrawi (936-1013 CE) stated that he had not heard or read of any Islamic physicians having performed tracheostomy, there is evidence that many prominent Islamic surgeons did practice this lifesaving procedure during medieval times. Throughout the Islamic Golden Age, Muslim physicians advanced the practice of tracheostomy with many modifications of the procedure, instrumentation, and adjuvant medicinal prescriptions.
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