Major Medical Innovations of Ernst Ferdinand Sauerbruch.41
| Year | Innovation | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1904 | Sauerbruch chamber | A negative-pressure chamber for thoracic surgery, enabling safer heart and lung operations |
| 1907 | Sauerbruch grip | A methodology for achieving hemostasis during cardiac surgery |
| 1915 | Prosthetic limbs | Advanced prosthetic limbs for war veterans that, for the first time, enabled improved movement |
| 1931 | Successful surgery of cardiac aneurysm | An accidental discovery involving rapid application of silk sutures in blind knots to isolate the aneurysm |
| Throughout his career from 1904 onward | Additional thoracic surgery innovations | Pioneered techniques for thoracoabdominal injuries, lung resection, esophageal cancer, pericarditis, tuberculosis treatment, cardiopulmonary surgery; combined, made him the pioneer of thoracic surgery |