An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2024 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

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JOHNSTON, J. H.

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Neonatal surgery.

London: Butterworth & Co., 1969.

Rickham founded the first neonatal surgical unit in the world, at Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool. This unit became the benchmark for similar units around the world. It brought about an improvement in the survival of newborn infants undergoing surgery from 22% to 74%.



Subjects: PEDIATRICS › Neonatology, Pediatric Surgery