Arthur Sidney Blundell Bankart FRCS was a British orthopaedic surgeon best known for describing the Bankart lesion and Bankart repair for shoulder dislocation.
11 Facts About Arthur Bankart
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Arthur Bankart was educated at Rugby School, Trinity College, Cambridge, and Guy's Hospital, qualifying in medicine in 1906.
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Arthur Bankart became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1909, and Master of Surgery in 1910.
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Arthur Bankart worked with Robert Jones at the Shepherds Bush Military Orthopaedic Centre during the First World War.
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Arthur Bankart performed most of the neurosurgery at the Maida Vale Hospital, particularly spinal surgery, until his departure in 1933.
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Arthur Bankart was appointed orthopaedic surgeon to the Middlesex Hospital, and performed many of the neurosurgical operations carried out there.
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Arthur Bankart was one of the first surgeons in the United Kingdom to perform lateral cordotomy for pain relief.
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Arthur Bankart retired in 1944, but continued working until his death on 8 April 1951, after a full day of operating at Mount Vernon Hospital.
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Arthur Bankart is remembered for developing a precise and fast surgical technique after studying under Arbuthnot-Lane.
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Arthur Bankart would tell his students that during his time at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital he would discharge the old patients when the senior surgeons went on summer holiday, and would then admit new patients on whom he would operate.
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Arthur Bankart described the pathology and surgical repair of recurrent shoulder dislocation in 1923, and again in 1938.