Hans Stockhausen (physician)

Hans Stockhausen (2009)

Hans Stockhausen (born July 7, 1932 in Fröndenberg ) is a German gynecologist and obstetrician . The first scientific work on cardiac sound diagnosis by Doppler comes from Hans Stockhausen in collaboration with Wever; he is one of the pioneers of medical ultrasound.

Life

As the son of a postmaster, Stockhausen grew up in Fröndenberg in the Sauerland and graduated from high school in 1952 at Walram Gymnasium in neighboring Menden. He completed his medical studies at the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster , the Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg , the University of Vienna and the Free University of Berlin . Stockhausen passed his state examination there in 1959 and received his doctorate a year later on the subject of the age factor in fatal road accidents . Stockhausen then went to the USA for four years in 1960. As a Fellow of the Ventnor Foundation, he first worked in Passaic New Jersey , and later at the Kapiolani Maternity Hospital in Hawaii - now known as the maternity hospital of US President Barack Obama . In 1965, Karl Julius Anselmino (1900–1978), one of the leading gynecologists in Europe at his time, brought Stockhausen to the Rheinische Landesfrauenklinik and midwifery school in Wuppertal (today part of the St. Antonius and St. Josef Clinic Association ). As a young specialist, Stockhausen brought with him an unusually large amount of experience from his stay in the USA - over 6,000 births and additional midwifery training - and was soon appointed senior physician and deputy to the then chief physician of the LFK Wuppertal.

Stockhausen gave birth to more than 25,000 babies in over 40 years of work as an obstetrician. Among them the EU politician Silvana Koch-Mehrin and other children of celebrities from the NRW region, such as the three children of the former Federal President Johannes Rau , then Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia and his wife Christina Rau , the daughter of the actress Mechthild Großmann , known from Pina Bausch's dance theater and since 2002 as a public prosecutor for Tatort Münster as well as the five grandchildren of Dr. Hubert Tigges , founder of package tourism in Germany.

At the end of the 1990s, Stockhausen stepped down professionally for health reasons. His active time did not end until 2011.

Services

Stockhausen played a key role in the introduction of various anesthesia methods, including the paracervical blockade (PCB) against labor pain and the pudendal anesthesia against exit pain.

In the 1960s Stockhausen fought for the introduction of rhesus prophylaxis in the event of possible rhesus incompatibility , in which Rh-negative mothers were given rhesus factor antibodies as a preventive measure during pregnancy and after the child was born.

In 1967 Stockhausen was involved in the introduction of Doppler in Germany, for observing children's heartbeats. The advanced Doppler sonography , also known colloquially as ultrasound , is still a common method in prenatal diagnosis and describes examinations on unborn children (see also early detection of diseases ).

In addition to his medical activities, Stockhausen also campaigned for the improvement of the professional situation of salaried and civil servant doctors. With the Marburger Bund he won her full right to liquidate.

Other professional activities and offices

• Trainer at the midwifery school, Wuppertal
• Member of the clinic committee, Wuppertal
• Chairman of the North Rhine Medical Association , Wuppertal district office
• Medical expert in Germany and the USA

Scientific work

• Heart sound diagnostics by Doppler, 1967.

• About the use of the paracervical block to facilitate childbirth. Obstetrics and Gynecology 27: 266, 1967

• Tokographic comparative studies using different tocolytic substances, 1971.

• Mediolateral Episiotomy or Median Episiotomy? Obstetrics and Gynecology 38: 34-37, 1978

• Injuries to the soft tissue passageway, Problems of the Pelvic Passageway , D. Langnickel (Ed.), Springer Verlag, Berlin / New York 1987, ISBN 3-540-18289-6 / ISBN 0-387-18289-6

• Psychological and drug relief in childbirth, pain relief during childbirth, midwifery textbook , Gerhard Martius, 5th edition, 548 ff, Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart, 1990, ISBN 3-13-307905-0

Web links

• Medical ultrasound pioneers
• Breast cancer: systemic disease or local problem? in: Deutsches Ärzteblatt 2000; 97 (24): A-1673 / B-1413 / C-1263.
• Anal incontinence after vaginal birth: an argument in favor of an optional caesarean section? Deutsches Ärzteblatt 2002; 99 (1-2): A-42 / B-31 / C-31

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ultrasound Museum in the German Röntgen Museum, p. 4/6. (PDF; 583 kB) Accessed July 6, 2012 . 
2. ↑ Brief history of Doppler sonography, pp. 15/17. (PDF; 4.2 MB) (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 6, 2010 ; Retrieved July 6, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ^ Ultrasound Museum in the German Röntgen Museum, p. 4/6. (PDF; 583 kB) Accessed July 6, 2012 . 
4. ^ Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Volume 211, Numbers 1-2 (1971), pp. 277-278. Retrieved July 6, 2012 .