ON THE HISTORY OF SURGICAL INSTRUMENTARIU M - THE DEVELOPMENT OF TANGENTIAL OCCLUSION CLAMPS

We demonstrate the historical development of tangential occlusion clam ps, which by partially clamping the vessels and by partially maintaini ng the blood how allow to reconstruct or to anastomose large vessels i n the side-by-side-technique. The first tangential occlusion clamp was developed by Friedrich Trendelenburg (1844-1924) in 1908, when he per formed the operative treatment of embolism of the pulmonary artery. Th is clamp was modified later by A.W. Meyer [1927] and V.P. Satinsky [ca . 1950].