Medical milestones, landmark publications, and notable births and deaths associated with June 22.

Events

1955 – Claude Schaeffer Beck (1894-1971), Edward C. Weckesser, and Frederick M. Barry achieved the first successful reversal of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, resuscitating a physician who collapsed from a presumed myocardial infarction, demonstrating that defibrillation could restore life after sudden cardiac death.

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Births

1848 – Sir William Macewen (1848–1924), Scottish surgeon and pioneer of modern neurosurgery. Described Macewen’s Sign (1893), Macewen’s Osteotomy and Macewen’s Osteotome (1879) and Macewen’s Triangle (1893)

1900 – Edgar van Nuys Allen (1900-1961), American physician; described the Allen Test (1929) and published the first clinical description of lipedema

1904 – Francis Garrett Pipkin (1904-1981), American orthopedic surgeon; described Pipkin classification of femoral head fracture (1957)

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Deaths

1975 – Robert Atwood Beaver (1906-1975), English Anaesthetist. Invented the The Beaver Respirator (1953), and Beaver tubular laryngoscope (1955)

1813 – Allan Burns (1781–1813), Scottish anatomist and surgeon; described the Burns ligament (1802) (superior horn of falciform margin of saphenous opening) and Space of Burns (suprasternal space) 

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Further reading

• Beck CS, Weckesser EC, Barry FM. Fatal heart attack and successful defibrillation; new concepts in coronary artery disease. J Am Med Assoc. 1956 Jun 2;161(5):434-6 [First successful defibrillation in OHCA]