astronomy

Graham Stack (surgeon)

Graham Stack (surgeon) is a astronomy topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Graham Stack (surgeon) rather than just read about it. In short: Hugh Graham Stack FRCS (7 December 1915 – 28 May 1992) was a British orthopaedic surgeon with a specialism in surgery of the hand. He was secretary of the Second Hand Club and was instrumental in the merger of the British hand surgery organisations to become the British Society for Surgery of the Hand.

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Reference excerpt

Hugh Graham Stack FRCS (7 December 1915 – 28 May 1992) was a British orthopaedic surgeon with a specialism in surgery of the hand. He was secretary of the Second Hand Club and was instrumental in the merger of the British hand surgery organisations to become the British Society for Surgery of the Hand.

Early life and education Hugh Stack was born in Bristol on 7 December 1915, the third son of Edward H. E. Stack FRCS, an ophthalmic surgeon at the Bristol Royal Infirmary, and his wife Caroline, née Kennedy. He was educated at Clifton College, following which he received a scholarship to study chemistry at Bristol University. Three years later he switched career and enrolled at St Bartholemew's Hospital in London, to study medicine. He married Lorna Cooke MRCP, in 1955. They had a daughter, Caroline, and a son, Charles, who became an anaesthetist.

Career Stack first worked as a house surgeon at Addenbrooke's Hospital, the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital and the Miller General Hospital, Greenwich, after which he served for two years in the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve. He was then honorary demonstrator in anatomy at King's College, London, and subsequently a surgical registrar at the North Middlesex Hospital. He became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1951 and from then on practised as an orthopaedic surgeon. He then held appointments at the Miller Hospital and St. Bartholomew's Hospital, the Albert Dock Orthopaedic and Fracture Hospital, and the Harold Wood and Brentwood District Hospitals. It was while he was at St Bartholomew's that he became interested in reconstructive surgery of the hand in which he was influenced by Jackson Burrows, Osmond Clark, Norman Capener and Guy Pulvertaft. In 1969, he wrote an influential article which highlighted the importance of naming the fingers (thumb, index, middle, ring, little) rather than numbering them (1, 2, 3, 4, 5), to avoid surgery on the wrong finger. In 1973, he was secretary of the Second Hand Club and was instrumental in the merger of the British hand surgery organisations to become the British Society for Surgery of the Hand. He was the first editor of The Hand, the forerunner of the Journal of Hand Surgery. He devised a splint - known as the Stack Splint - for the management of soft tissue mallet fingers. In 1970, he was elected Hunterian Professor by the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

Death and legacy Stack died on 28 May 1992. The Graham Stack travelling fellowship is awarded in his memory.

Selected publications

Articles Stack, H.Graham (1960). "New Retractor for Hand Surgery". The Lancet. 275 (7137): 1278. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(60)92256-X. Stack, H. Graham (1962). "Muscle Function in the Fingers". The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. British Volume. 44-B (4): 899–909. doi:10.1302/0301-620X.44B4.899. Stack, H. G. (1964). "Tumours of the Hand". Postgrad Med J. 40 (463): 290–8. doi:10.1136/pgmj.40.463.290. PMC 2482875. PMID 14145050. Stack, H. Graham (1969). "Mallet Finger". Hand. 1 (2): 83–89. doi:10.1016/0072-968X(69)90069-2. S2CID 37791015. Stack, H. Graham (1969). "Naming the Fingers". Hand. 1 (2): 146–150. doi:10.1016/0072-968X(69)90084-9. S2CID 74251649. Stack, H. Graham (1971). "Button hole deformity". Hand. 3 (2): 152–4. doi:10.1016/0072-968x(71)90034-9. PMID 5127922. S2CID 208214362., pp. 152–4. Burchell, Geoffrey; Stack, Graham (June 1973). "Exsanguination of the arm and hand". The Hand. 5 (2): 124–6. doi:10.1016/0072-968X(73)90052-1. PMID 4715693. S2CID 10607466. "Second Hand Club", British Society for Surgery of the Hand, 1975, ISBN 9780950101910. Stack, Graham (1981). "Glass injuries". Hand. 13 (2): 111. doi:10.1016/s0072-968x(81)80049-6. PMID 7286794. S2CID 5109399. Burchell, Geoffrey (1973). "Exsanguination of the Arm and Hand". Hand. 5 (2): 124–126. doi:10.1016/0072-968X(73)90052-1. PMID 4715693. S2CID 10607466.

Lectures Arris and Gale Lecture: "A Study of Muscle Function in the Fingers", Royal College of Surgeons, 28 May 1963. Hunterian lecture: "The palmar fascia, and the development of deformities and displacemants in Dupuytren's contracture", Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons England. 1971.

Chapters "Tumours" in R. Guy Pulvertaft (Ed.) Clinical Surgery: Volume 7 The Hand. Butterworths, 1966. pp. 208–228.

References

Further reading Kener, Hillary J.; Zeide, Michael (16 November 2010). Fingerology: The Complete Guide to the Fingers. Bloomington, IN: iUniverse. ISBN 978-1-4401-6703-4. Retrieved 10 September 2018.

Worked examples

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Example 2 — changing one variable

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Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Graham Stack (surgeon) ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Graham Stack (surgeon)

In research: Graham Stack (surgeon) appears in astronomy research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Graham Stack (surgeon) in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Graham Stack (surgeon) is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1915 births, 1992 deaths, 20th-century surgeons, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Graham Stack (surgeon) outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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