Top 10 Most Incredible Medical Records
Amazing stories don't just happen on medical shows. Here are ten of the most fantastic documented medical records. Especially for fans of House MD: there is not a word about lupus.
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1. The highest body temperature was recorded in 1980 by Willie Jones from Atlanta (USA). The reason for hospitalization was heat stroke. The body temperature was found to be 46.5 °C. Will Jones was discharged from the hospital after 24 days.
2. The lowest body temperature in the world - 14.2 ° C was recorded on February 23, 1994 in a 2-year-old Canadian girl, Carly Kozolofsky, who spent six hours in the cold at a temperature of -22 ° C. The child was saved.
3. The oldest person to undergo surgery was James Henry Brett Jr. from Houston (USA). He was 111 years and 105 days old when he underwent successful hip surgery.
4. K. Kilner from Zimbabwe took the largest number of pills. During 21 years of treatment from June 9, 1967 to June 19, 1988, he took 565,939 pills.
5. Most injections were given to Samuel Davidson from the UK - 78,900 injections of insulin.
6. A record amount of blood was required during the operation of 50-year-old Warren Dzhirich from Chicago, who suffered from hemophilia. In December 1970, during a heart operation, he received 2,400 donor units (1,080 L) of blood.
7. From 1954 to 1994, Charles Jensen from the USA underwent 970 operations to remove neoplasms.
8. In ten years from 1979 to 1989, eight out of ten large joints of Norma Wickwire (USA), who suffered from rheumatoid arthritis, were replaced with artificial ones.
9. Fisherman Jan Revsdal from Norway survived the longest cardiac arrest after he fell overboard in the Bergen area in winter. Due to hypothermia, his heart did not beat for four hours.
10. In July 1977, Briton David Purley suffered 29 fractures and 3 dislocations as a result of the Formula 1 disaster, and his heart stopped six times in the hospital. After recovering, he continued to compete in motor racing. David Purley died on July 2, 1985 when his plane crashed into the sea off Bognor Regis.
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