title: Surgeons and their tools: a history of surgical instruments and their innovators. Part V: pass me the hemostat/clamp.
abstract: This is the last of five manuscripts reviewing the historical origins of some of the more commonly used surgical instruments and takes "time out" to remind current surgeons about the surgical pioneers on whose shoulders they now stand and whose inventions they now use.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Saint Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston, New Jersey, USA.
authors.forename: Abraham
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: El-Sedfy
authors.forename: Ronald S
authors.initials: RS
authors.lastname: Chamberlain
mesh_terms: D006488:Hemostasis, Surgical / Q000266:history* / Q000295:instrumentation; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D013525:Surgical Instruments / Q000266:history*; D013557:Switzerland; D014481:United States