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Place of Birth: Dresden, Saxony, Germany
About Georg Kelling
- Georg Kelling (7 July 1866 in Dresden – 14 February 1945) was a German internist and surgeon who was a laparoscopy pioneer and in 1901 performed the first laparoscopic surgery on a dog .He studied medicine at the Universities of Leipzig and Berlin.
- He earned his medical doctorate in 1890, and later worked as a physician at the city hospital in Dresden.
- In the 1890s, Kelling devised an esophagoscope Kelling specialized in gastrointestinal physiology and anatomy.
- He is credited with performing the first laparoscopic examination, a procedure he referred to as "celioscopy".
- In 1901 he performed the procedure on the abdomen of a dog using a Nitze-cystoscope.
- Prior to cystoscopic viewing of the abdomen, Kelling insufflated it with filtered air via a device known as a trocar.
- Insufflation was used to create a pneumoperitoneum in order to prevent intra-abdominal bleeding.
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