Untitled hip operation film.

Date:
[date of publication not identified]
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Also known as

McKee Operation.

Description

This film shows a McKee metal on metal total hip replacement operation. When the implant is in place and prior to the wound being sewn up, the leg is manipulated to demonstrate the action of the hip.

Publication/Creation

United Kingdom, [date of publication not identified]

Physical description

1 videocassette (DIGIBETA) (13 min.) : silent, colour PAL.
1 DVD (13 min.) : silent, colour PAL.

Notes

Film box is marked 'to Mr. S. K. McKee CBE FRPS with compliments from [undecipherable signature]'.
One of a small number of film cans (1 of 6) attributed to S. K. McKee in the possession of Mrs Patricia Phillips passed on to the Wellcome Library in 2012. Ken McKee's academic archive was given to the late Mr Hugh Phillips who was a consultant colleague of Ken McKee in Norwich and subsequently became President of the Royal College of Surgeons. McKee was one of the original pioneers of hip joint replacement.

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