Max Grob

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Max Grob (born January 2, 1901 in Zurich ; † December 21, 1976 in Zurich ) was a Swiss pediatric surgeon .

He was the first Swiss surgeon to exclusively work in pediatric surgery. He began his work in 1928 in the children's hospital in the Canton of Zurich. In 1936 he finished his training as a child surgeon in Zurich. From 1939 to 1971 he was the chief physician of the surgical clinic at the Children's Hospital in Zurich.

In 1947 Grob carried out the first successful operation ( Blalock-Taussig ) on a child with Fallot tetralogy in Europe. In 1957 he introduced artificial hypothermia and in 1959 used a heart-lung machine for the first time . Grob was the first Swiss pediatric surgeon to perform pull-through surgery for Hirschsprung's disease .

He was a member of international pediatric surgical organizations and received the Dennis Browne Memorial Medal of the British Association of Pediatric Surgeons (BAPS) in 1969 . Grob was an honorary member of the German Society for Pediatric Surgery .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Thomas Böni: Grob, Max. In: Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz .
  2. ^ A b c Nicolas Lutz, Noël Genton: Pediatric surgery in Switzerland. (PDF; 242 kB) (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved February 12, 2010 .  ( 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. @1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.swiss-pediatricsurgery.org  
  3. ^ Honorary members of the German Society for Pediatric Surgery. Retrieved February 12, 2010 .
personal data
SURNAME Coarse, max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss pediatric surgeon
DATE OF BIRTH January 2, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH December 21, 1976
Place of death Zurich