Ernest William Hey Groves

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Ernest William Hey Groves FRCS (born June 20, 1872 in India , † 1944 ) was a British medic.

Life

Ernest William Hey Groves was born in India in 1872, the son of civil engineer Edward Kennaway Groves. When Hey Groves was three years old, his family settled in Bristol . It received its medical training at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London . In 1895 he completed his studies. Initially his interest was in the field of obstetrics . After studying in Tübingen , he settled in a suburb of Bristol as a general practitioner . His home became a private clinic and he performed operations there. In 1905 he became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and Master of Surgery at the University of London . In the same year he became a doctor at Bristol General Hospital . In parallel, he was a senior prosector at the University of Bristol . During the First World War Hey Groves was with the Royal Army Medical Corps in Egypt . From 1922 he held the Chair of Surgery in Bristol . Hey Groves was President of the British Orthopedic Association . In 1941 he retired.

Hey Groves had been married to Frederica Anderson , who was a nurse at St Bartholomew's Hospital, since 1896 .

plant

Hey Groves is considered the father of modern cruciate ligament surgery . In 1917 he removed a stalked strip of the iliotibial tract from a patient with a torn cruciate ligament, with which he performed a cruciate ligament reconstruction. He led the strip through two drill channels that extended from the epicondyle to the intercondylic fossa and from the shin to the intercondylic eminence .

further reading

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ AH Ratliff: Ernest William Hey Groves and his contributions to orthopedic surgery. In: Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Volume 65, Number 3, May 1983, pp. 203-206, PMID 6344734 , PMC 2494277 (free full text).
  2. ^ A b Ernest William Hey Groves, MD, MS, FRCS 1872-1944.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: J Bone Joint Surg Am 27, 1945, pp. 340-342.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.ejbjs.org  
  3. ^ EW Hey-Groves: Operation for repair of the crucial ligament. In: The Lancet 2, 1917, p. 674.
  4. ^ EW Hey Groves: The crucial ligaments of the knee joint; their function, rupture and the operative treatment of the same. In: Br J Surg 7, 1920, pp. 505-515.
  5. ↑ A. Heverhagen: long-term results after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction with patellar tendon. (PDF file; 1.68 MB) Dissertation, Philipps University Marburg, 2009
  6. ^ GA Snook: A short history of the anterior cruciate ligament and the treatment of tears. In: Clinical Orthopedics 172, 1983, pp. 11-13. PMID 6336998
personal data
SURNAME Hey Groves, Ernest William
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British surgeon
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH India
DATE OF DEATH 1944