A Rosario doctor was distinguished among his colleagues as one of the “Seven Sages of Humanity” in cardiovascular surgery. It is an award that was awarded for the first time in history and highlighted the scientific contributions that renowned men made in the world.
The distinction of the First Cardiovascular Surgery Clinic of the Henry Dunant Hospital Center, of Greeceit fell to the doctor Federico Benetti, 76 years old, who had his first surgery in 1978. Throughout his career operated on about 6,000 patients and keep investigating and finding a way to revolutionize treatment again of the coronary heart disease.
He was born on November 29, 1947 in rosary beadsand since the age of 14 he had already chosen to be cardiovascular surgeon. In 1978 operated on his first patient coronary surgery without the use of extracorporeal circulation in it Spanish Hospital of the city of Santa Fe.
The doctor assured the newspaper Clarion: “My dad was the first cardiac surgeon to perform open heart surgery in Argentina, in 1958. He had an Institute with an experimental department where he taught me how to keep the heart of a toad alive, beating. That’s where it all started. I wasn’t interested in being a doctor. I never had any doubts that I wanted to be a cardiac surgeon.. I trained in Brazil and at the age of 24 I had my first heart operation. “I always worked obsessively.”
Benetti is known as “the father of beating heart surgery”
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His first scientific publication it was in the Magazine of the Argentine Society of Cardiology it was in 1980. In 1989, founded with the Japanese Jerry Wada Surgeon and several country specialists in Osaka, the International Society of Cardiothoracic Surgery (ISCTS).
On January 31, 1994 founded the first company in Silicon Valley through which developed all the inventions that allowed these operations without extracorporeal circulation to reach millions of patients around the world.
Benetti remarked: “I performed, for the first time in the world, at the Sanatorio Colegiales de Belgrano, a coronary operation in a less invasive way, that is, a by-pass ccoronary artery using a small lateral incision and a video camera creating the MIDCAB technique for which I have a patent in the USA.
In nineteen ninety sixfounded the International Society for Less Invasive Cardiac Surgery (ISMICS) and in 1990, the Benetti Foundation with personal contributions for the purpose of promote research, teaching and enrichment of medical science in the branch of cardiology and the cardiovascular surgery.
The award
Delivery It took place on May 28 at the Ancient Greek Parliament of Athens. In the Old age, In Greece, the Seven Wise Menwho were philosophers, statesmen and legislators, like Priene Bias, Cleobulus of Lindos, Periander of Corinth, Pittacus of Mytilene, Chilon of Sparta, Solon and Such.
He Henry Dunant Hospital Center was inspired by that distinction to recognize the contribution of seven of these specialists in cardiovascular medicine in the 1990s.
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