Enrique Finochietto

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Enrique Finochietto (born March 13, 1881 in Buenos Aires , † February 17, 1948 ibid) was an Argentine surgeon , inventor of surgical instruments and chief physician of Rawson City Hospital in Buenos Aires.

Life

Finochietto studied medicine at the University of Buenos Aires, where he received his doctorate in 1906. He then went to Europe for apprenticeship and wandering years until 1909, as was not uncommon for prospective doctors in Argentina at the time. In Europe, Finochietto learned from Theodor Kocher , who received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1909 . With Kocher, Finochietto learned his system of “safe surgery”, which placed great emphasis on asepsis, tissue protection, careful hemostasis and volume replacement. Kocher also made him known with the reduction method of shoulder dislocation. In 1918, after the end of the First World War, Enrique Finochietto became chief physician at the renowned Rawson City Hospital in Buenos Aires, which he ran for more than 40 years. Finochietto, together with his brother Ricardo Finochietto (1888–1962), is the founder of one of the most famous surgical schools in Latin America. He invented surgical instruments and devices, such as the intercostal separator.

Promote nursing

The brothers Enrique and Ricardo Finoccieto founded the “Eva Perón's Foundation Nursing School” at Rawson Hospital in Buenos Aires with the help of the “ Eva Duarte Perón Foundation ”. It was the goal of Eva “Evita” Perón to help the “shirtless”, that is, the very poor in Brazil in all parts of the country. No citizen of the state should be cut off from health care. Therefore, the Enrique and Ricardo Finoccieto brothers developed a three-year nursing study program with the aim of deploying these academically trained nurses across the country.

publication

  • Enrique Finochietto, Ricardo Finochietto: Técnica quirúrgica: opéraciónes y aparatos. Buenos Aires between 1940 and 1950.

literature

  • L. Libreros (Ed.): Finochietto, Enrique: Cirurgía básica. Buenos Aires 1962.
  • V. Pataro: La técnica quirúrgica de Enrique Finochietto a través de Ricardo Finochietto. In: Prensa Méd. Argent. 70, No. 12, 1983, pp. 481-486.
  • Leopoldo Acuña: Enrique Finochietto. In: Wolfgang U. Eckart , Christoph Gradmann (Hrsg.): Ärztelexikon. From antiquity to the 20th century. CH Beck, Munich 1995, p. 133. (2nd edition. Medical dictionary. From antiquity to the present. Springer, Heidelberg / Berlin et al. 2001, p. 112; 3rd edition. Dto. Springer, 2006, p. 118) . doi: 10.1007 / 978-3-540-29585-3

Honor

  • Libro de oro del Professor Don Enrique Finochietto. Festschrift. Lopéz, Buenos Aires 1935.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Beatriz Morrone, Maria Cecilia Santos Popper, Javier Mendizábal: Finoccietto, Ricardo , in: Hubert Kolling (Ed.): Biographical Lexicon for Nursing History “Who was who in nursing history”, Volume 8, hpsmedia Nidda 2018, pp. 56–58 .

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personal data
SURNAME Finochietto, Enrique
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentine surgeon and inventor of surgical instruments
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Buenos Aires
DATE OF DEATH February 17, 1948
Place of death Buenos Aires