Åke Senning
Åke Senning (born December 14, 1915 in Rättvik , Sweden , † July 21, 2000 in Zurich , Switzerland ) was a Swedish heart surgeon .
Life
Åke Senning was born the son of a veterinarian. He actually wanted to be an engineer , but his mother persuaded him to study medicine. After studying in Uppsala and Stockholm , he passed the state examination in 1948. He received his surgical training from Clarence Crafoord from 1948 in the Sabbatsberg Hospital in Stockholm. Crafoord commissioned him to develop a heart-lung machine . When Clarence Crafoord carried out the first successful open heart operation in Europe in 1954, Senning made a decisive contribution with his heart-lung machine. In 1956 he followed his boss to Karolinska Sjukhuset , where he became head of experimental surgery and, at the same time, senior physician.
Together with the electrical engineer Rune Elmqvist , Åke Senning developed the first implantable pacemaker in 1958 .
On April 16, 1961, Senning took over the management of the newly created Surgical Clinic A at the University Hospital Zurich . In the first nine months of his tenure, 108 heart operations were performed, two years later 264 and in the last year of office 937. In 1969 he performed the first two heart transplants in Switzerland. In 1968 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .
In 1979 Åke Senning was awarded the Ernst Jung Prize . The Senning operation , a cardiac surgical procedure for treating the transposition of the large arteries , is named after him. He found his final resting place in the Fluntern cemetery .
Web links
- Hubert Steinke : Senning, Åke. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Professor Ake Senning (1915 - 2000) on the website of the University Hospital Zurich
- Hans A. Säuberli: Ake Senning - pioneer of Swiss cardiac surgery in Zurich (PDF; 281 kB)
- DA Cooley: In memoriam. Tribute to Ake Senning, pioneering cardiovascular surgeon. In: Texas Heart Institute journal. Volume 27, Number 3, 2000, pp. 234-235, PMID 11225587 , PMC 101071 (free full text).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Reinhard Larsen: Anesthesia and intensive medicine in cardiac, thoracic and vascular surgery. (1st edition 1986) 5th edition. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York et al. 1999, ISBN 3-540-65024-5 , p. 375 f.
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| SURNAME | Senning, Åke |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish heart surgeon |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 14, 1915 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rättvik , Sweden |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 21, 2000 |
| Place of death | Zurich , Switzerland |