Donald Trunkey

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Donald Dean Trunkey (born June 23, 1937 in Oakesdale , Washington - † May 1, 2019 in Post Falls , Idaho ) was an American surgeon ( traumatology ).

Trunkey studied from 1955 at Washington State University and from 1959 at the University of Washington Medical School (MD degree 1963). He began his specialist training as a surgeon (internship) in 1963 at the University of Oregon Medical School with J. Englebert Dunphy. He then served in the US Army in Germany for two years. He continued his training from 1966 to 1970 at various hospitals at the University of California (San Francisco) (residency), at Dunphy and at the San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH) with the surgeon F. William Blaisdell, who specialized in trauma surgery. He then worked at the University of Texas Trauma Unit at Parkland Hospital in Dallas with Tom Shires, where he did basic research, which he then continued at the SFGH with a grant from the National Institutes of Health . From 1971 he was assistant professor (for surgical research) at the University of Texas in Dallas (Southwestern Medical School) and from 1972 at the University of California, San Francisco . There he became Associate Professor in 1976 and Professor in 1979. From 1973 to 1976 he led surgery at Mission Emergency Hospital in San Francisco and from 1978 to 1986 at the San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH). From 1986 he was professor and until 2001 head of surgery at Oregon Health Sciences University . From 2007 he was Professor Emeritus there.

Trunkey dealt primarily with shock and its effects on the cellular level and in the immune system. He played an essential role in the development of standards for and the establishment of specialized trauma centers in the USA. He started doing this at the Trauma Center at San Francisco General Hospital in the early 1970s. With John West, he published a baseline comparative study of trauma patient death rates at San Francisco General Hospital (with a specialized trauma unit) and community hospitals such as Orange County, California (where West had a private surgical outpatient clinic), the one had a great impact. Trunkey and others published a recommendation Optimal Hospital Resources for the Injured Patient in 1976 and from 1982 to 1986 chaired the trauma committee of the American College of Surgeons (ACS), which enforced these recommendations (categorization of hospitals according to the fulfillment of the criteria and with the specialty course Advanced Trauma Life Support , ATLS). This also played a pioneering role worldwide.

In 2008 he and Basil A. Pruitt received the König Faisal Prize for Medicine. In 2008 he became president of the American Surgical Association , in 1999 he was president of the International Society of Surgery and the International Surgical Group, in 1989 he was founding president of the International Association for the Surgery of Trauma and Intensive Care and in 1986/87 he was president of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma . He was an honorary member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (whose medal he received in 1987), the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland , the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and a corresponding member of the German Society for Trauma Surgery .

Fonts

  • with Frank R. Lewis: Current Therapy on Trauma , Mosby, 4th edition 1998
  • with Lewis Flint, J. Wayne Meredith, C. William Schwab, Loring Rue, Paul A. Taheri (editors) Trauma: contemporary principles and therapy , Lippincott Williams and Wilkins 2007
  • with LD Britt, David Feliciano (editor): Acute Care Surgery: Principles and Practice , Springer 2007
  • with F. William Blaisdell (editor): Abdominal Trauma , 2 volumes, G. Thieme Verlag, 1982, 1993
  • with F. William Blaisdell (editor): Cervicothoracic Trauma , G. Thieme Verlag 1986
  • same (editor): Urogenital Trauma , Thieme-Stratton 1985
  • with John Mills, Mary T. Ho (editors): Current emergency diagnosis and treatment , 5 volumes, Los Altos, California, Lange Medical Publ., 1983 to 2004

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ obituary facs.org, accessed on 22 August 2020
  2. ^ D. Trunkey, J. West, RC Lim: Systems of trauma care. A study of two counties, Arch. Surgery, Vol. 114, April 1979, pp. 455-460, PMID 435058
personal data
SURNAME Trunkey, Donald
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Trunkey, Donald D .; Trunkey, Donald Dean (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American medic
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Oakesdale , Washington
DATE OF DEATH 1st May 2019
Place of death Post Falls , Idaho