Owen Harding Wangensteen
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Owen Harding Wangensteen
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Owen Harding Wangensteen was an American surgeon who developed the Wangensteen tube, which used suction to treat small bowel obstruction, an innovation estimated to have saved a million lives by the time of his death. He founded the Surgical Forum at the American College of Surgeons (ACS) and was renowned for his surgical teaching. Amongst his most notable students were Walton Lillehei, Christiaan Barnard, K. Alvin Merendino, Norman Shumway and Edward Eaton Mason. He made contributions to surgic
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American surgeon and historian
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen_Harding_Wangensteen
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2024-01-30T02:48:25Z
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