The story of the strangest surgery “causing the death of 3 people at once”

Before the advent of anesthesia in the medical field, surgical procedures were very difficult for the patient and the doctor. Because the patients were conscious during the operation, it was necessary to end the operation as soon as possible; To relieve pain, reduce bleeding.

Although the possibility of the patient's death is present in any operation, can one operation cause the death of 3 people?

Robert Liston success

Robert Liston, an English surgeon, was one of the most famous surgeons before the advent of anesthesia. According to (Storage two), Liston's success has emerged; Because of two main factors, the first: his personal hygiene and washing his hands before the operation, and this was not typical at the time, as surgeons move from one operation to another with contaminated blood, which causes the death of many. In addition, he kept his medical instruments clean between surgeries; For a clean surgical environment. As for the second factor: his amazing surgical speed, he can amputate the leg in just two and a half minutes, which was required when performing an operation without anesthesia.
As a result of that success, Robert was demonstrating his surgical speed, performing operations in a room that allowed onlookers to watch.

Operation failed 

According to (All thats interesting), Robert Liston performed a leg amputation on a patient. When he lowered the knife, he was so focused on his speed that he cut off his surgical assistant's fingers and the patient's leg. As he moved the knife, an onlooker collapsed and died, and both the patient and the physician's assistant died after their wounds became infected. Despite Liston's many successes, he has become the only surgeon known to have a 300% mortality rate from a single operation.

In addition to that operation, the website (Storage two) reported that Liston erred when he found a lump in the neck of a young boy as a skin tag and removed it, but it turned out that the lump was an aneurysm in the artery, and the boy died.

Honoring the doctor after his death

Years later, when anesthesia appeared, Liston became the first surgeon to use it, and the operation was a success. Robert Liston remained a distinguished surgeon. After his death, his colleagues placed a marble statue; In his honor, they also put an award for outstanding students in his name.