Who was Ernst Ferdinand Sauerbruch?

Sauerbruch was the leading German surgeon in the first half of the 20th century. He became known in 1904 at the 33rd Congress of the German Society of Surgery. There he introduced the “pressure differential procedure” he had developed, providing the basis for open-chest surgery. At that time, patients in torax surgery, as a result … Who was Ernst Ferdinand Sauerbruch?