Medical records

Amazing stories do not happen only in the medical series. Here are a dozen of the most fantastic documented medical records. Specially for fans of House MD: about lupus there a word.





1. The highest body temperature was recorded in 1980, Willie Jones of Atlanta (USA). The reason for hospitalization was heat stroke. Body temperature was equal to 46 5 ° C. Will Jones from the hospital he was discharged after 24 days.



2. The lowest temperature of the body in the world - 14, 2 ° C was recorded February 23, 1994 at 2-year-old Canadian girl Carly Kozolofski, who spent six hours on the cold at a temperature of -22 ° C. The child was rescued



3. The oldest person subjected to surgery, was James Henry Brett ml. Houston (USA). He was 111 years and 105 days when he suffered a successful operation on his hip.



4. The largest number of tablets received K. Kilner from Zimbabwe. In the 21 years the treatment of 9 June 1967 to 19 June 1988 he received 565,939 pills.



5. Most injections were made Samuel Deivdsonu from the UK - 78,900 insulin injections.



6. Record the amount of blood needed during surgery 50-year-old Warren Dzhirichu from Chicago hemophilia. In December 1970, during heart surgery in 2400, he was transfused donor units (1080 liters) of blood.



7. From 1954 to 1994, Charles Jensen of the United States was done 970 operations to remove tumors.



8. In the ten years from 1979 to 1989, eight out of ten large joints Norma Uikvayr (USA), rheumatoid arthritis, have been replaced by artificial.



9. longest cardiac arrest experienced fisherman Ian Revsdal from Norway after the winter fell overboard near Bergen. Because of hypothermia his heart stopped beating for four hours.



10. As a result of the disaster at the races "Formula 1" Briton David Purley in July 1977 received 29 fractures and dislocation 3, and his heart stopped in the hospital six times. Recovered, he continued to act in racing. David Purley died July 2, 1985, when his plane crashed into the sea not far from Bognor Regis.