Basil A. Pruitt

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Basil Arthur Pruitt Junior (born August 21, 1930 in Nyack , New York ; † March 17, 2019 ) was an American surgeon ( traumatology ) who was particularly concerned with the treatment of burns.

Pruitt studied medicine at Harvard University (Bachelor 1952) and made his MD in 1957 at Tufts University . He then received his specialist training as a surgeon (residency) in Boston . In 1959 he was drafted into the US Army as part of the Berry Plan at the US Army Institute of Surgical Research (ISR) in San Antonio ( Fort Sam Houston ). He completed his residency in 1964 at the Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio (the US Army burn center). From 1964 until his retirement in 1995 he was in the US Army Medical Corps at the ISR, where he was director and commanding officer (with the rank of colonel ) for 27 years . After his time in the army, with which he also served as a surgeon in combat units in Vietnam for a year and treated numerous burns, he went to the University of Texas Health Center in San Antonio as a professor. He also taught at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences at Bethesda .

During his time in the US Army, Pruitt was involved in important improvements in the treatment of burn victims, for example in 1966 with the introduction of an antiseptic burn ointment ( Mafenid ), which significantly increased the chances of survival of patients with extensive burns, especially due to its effect against Pseudomonas infections .

He was editor of the Journal of Trauma and authored and co-authored over 440 scientific articles.

In 2008 he received the King Faisal Prize for Medicine with Donald Trunkey . He was president of the Shock Society.

Fonts

  • with W. Scott McDougle, C. Lawrence Slade Manual of Burns , Springer 1978
  • with Curtis P. Artz, John A. Moncrief (Editor) Burns - a team approach , Saunders, Philadelphia 1979
  • with Roger E. Salisbury Burns of the upper extremity , Saunders 1976

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Founded by Secretary of the Ministry of Health, Frank Berry, during the Korean War. After that, many doctors were called in after their internship, but were able to continue their residency during this time
  2. ↑ John A. Moncrieff, Robert Lindberg, Walter Switzer, Pruitt The use of a topical sulfonamide in the control of burn wound sepsis . In: The Journal of Trauma , Volume 6, 1966, pp. 407-419
personal data
SURNAME Pruitt, Basil A.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pruitt, Basil Arthur Jr.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American medic
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Nyack
DATE OF DEATH 17th March 2019