Georg Kelling

Georg Kelling (July 7 1866 - 1945) was a German internist and surgeon who was born in Dresden. 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.

Kelling was a specialist concerning gastrointestinal physiology and anatomy. He is credited with performing the first laparoscopic examination, which he called "celioscopy". In 1901 he performed this 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.

References

* [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&list_uids=16773385&cmd=Retrieve&indexed=google NCBI, Biography of George Kelling]
* [http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://age.saxxon.de/modules/tinycontent/index.php%3Fid%3D17&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=6&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522Georg%2BKelling%2522%2B%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG Google-translated biography of Georg Kelling]