[Worldkings] Top 100 innovation events in the world (P. 90) Barcelona Hospital performs the world's first fully robotic lung transplant (Spain)
19-04-2023
(Worldkings.org) The four-armed Da Vinci robot enabled surgeons to make a smaller incision, meaning less pain and faster healing for the patient.
[Worldkings] Top 100 pioneers in all fields (P. 27) Denton Cooley (USA): The doctor who performed the world’s first implantation of a total artificial heart
05-04-2023
(Worldkings.org) Texas Heart Institute founder Dr. Denton A. Cooley performed the world’s first total artificial heart implant on April 4, 1969, launching the quest to build a total artificial heart that lasts to this day.
[Worldkings] Top 100 Pioneers in All Fields (P. 19) Harold Gillies (New Zealand): The Father of Modern Plastic Surgery
27-03-2023
(Worldkings.org) Surgeon Harold Gillies developed a new method of facial reconstructive surgery in 1917. His work marked the dawn of plastic surgery as we know it today.
[Worldkings] Top 50 Universities with Innovative Research (P. 48) University of Waterloo (Canada): Making the first gecko robot to be an effective assistant for doctors in surgery
02-03-2023
(Worldkings.org) A small robot that could one day help doctors perform surgery was inspired by the incredible grasping ability of geckos and the efficient motion of inchworms.
[Worldkings] Top 50 Universities with Innovative Research (P. 30) Johns Hopkins University (USA): First university to perform fully robotic laparoscopic surgery
09-02-2023
(Worldkings.org) A robot has performed laparoscopic surgery on the soft tissue of a pig without the guiding hand of a human -- a significant step in robotics toward fully automated surgery on humans.
WORLDKINGS - Worldkings News - America Records Institute (AMRI) – Arthrobot: World’s first robot to assist in surgery
25-07-2022
(WorldKings.org) The first robot to assist in surgery was the Arthrobot, which was developed and used for the first time in Vancouver in 1985.
President of Vietnamese Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery Le Hanh was honored to received Golden Plate from World Record Content Academy (WRCA)
25-02-2022
(worldkings.org) At the 45th Meeting of Vietnam Record Holder in Ho Chi Minh city - Vietnam, World Record Content Academy (WRCA) - World Records Union (WorldKings) awarded Golden Plate of Dedication for Record Values to Doctor, Record Holder Le Hanh for his contribution to record holder's community in the world.
[WORLDKINGS] The Constant World Records Seeking Journey (P.245) Champa (Laos) - The first bear in the world to have brain surgery
15-01-2022
(WorldKings.org) In the mountains of northern Laos, a three-year-old at the time Asiatic black bear had become a medical pioneer: Indochina’s first bear to undergo brain surgery.
WORLDKINGS - Worldkings News - Africa Records Institute (AFRI) – Selig Percy Amoils: Develop world's first surgical tool that uses extreme cold nitrous oxide to destroy unwanted tissue
06-04-2020
(Worldkings.org) Selig Percy Amoils develops the world's first surgical tool that uses extreme cold nitrous oxide to destroy unwanted tissue.
WORLDKINGS - Worldkings News - World-first brain surgery performed on endangered kākāpō parrot
08-10-2019
(Worldkings.org) Surgical techniques used on humans deployed to help chick born with skull abnormality in New Zealand