Scalpels to Keyholes: A history of general surgery at Christchurch Hospital 1862-2022

For 160 years, Christchurch Hospital has stood alongside the Avon River. Operating theatres began as simple rooms with few resources, limiting the early surgeons’ range to repairing hernias and broken bones, performing
appendicectomies and ameliorating the ravages of
tuberculosis.
Improved anaesthetic agents and the introduction
of antibiotics revolutionised surgery in the twentieth century and keyhole surgery has in the twenty-first.

‘A remarkable piece of work, charmed by extensive
references and delightful readability’ – Professor John Morton, retired Vascular & Transplant Surgeon

Format: Paperback
Imprint: Small New Zealand Publisher