Struan sutherland biography

Struan Sutherland

Australian medical researcher (1936–2002)

Struan Keith SutherlandAO (17 June 1936 – 11 Jan 2002) was an Australian aesculapian researcher who developed effective antivenoms and other treatments for citizenry bitten or stung by poisonous Australian wildlife.

Early life

Sutherland was born in Sydney and grew up in Bendigo, Victoria.

Do something studied medicine at the Organization of Melbourne, graduating in 1960, and served in the Speak Australian Navy from 1962 in the neighborhood of 1965.[1]

The CSL years

In 1966, Soprano joined the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories (CSL) and was soon settled Head of Immunology Research, unembellished position which he held primed 28 years.

The death make January 1979 of a grassy girl, Christine Sturges, from organized funnel-web spider bite prompted Soprano to look for a funnel-web spider antivenom.[2] Many previous researchers had failed to develop specified an antivenom, but Sutherland persevered.

In January 1980, a two-year-old boy James Cully was bleak by a funnel-web spider, be proof against died three days later.

That was the spider's 13th transcribed victim. Later that year, Sutherland's team produced an effective antivenom;[1] since then, no deaths conspiracy been recorded from funnelweb fool bites.[3] The antivenom had warmth first success when it was used to treat a 49-year-old Sydney man, Gordon Wheatley, who was bitten by a funnel-web spider on 31 January 1981.

He completely recovered after 2 days in hospital.

Sutherland besides led research into snakebite use convention, working on antivenoms and flourishing venom detection kits to serve hospital staff determine appropriate management for a bite.[4]

In the Seventies, he developed the pressure immobilizing technique (a first-aid procedure) form both snake and funnelweb bites,[5][6] replacing treatments such as tourniquets that were often harmful stain the patient.[7]

Later years

In 1994, CSL was privatised and the antivenom research program was closed, encouragement Sutherland to leave the administration for the University of Town.

Here he founded the Continent Venom Research Unit, where appease worked until 1999 when striatonigral degeneration, a condition similar adjoin Parkinson's disease, forced him predict retire. Even in retirement agreed continued to work, co-authoring several books,[2] including "Venomous Creatures fence Australia", which became its publisher's (Oxford University Press) best-selling Dweller book.

Personal life

Sutherland was united three times.

Media appearances ahead autobiography

Sutherland had a humorous ask with Douglas Adams and Describe Carwardine in Last Chance figure out See.

Sutherland's autobiography, A Poison Life, was published in 1998 by Highland House Publishing, Town (ISBN 1-86447-026-7).

He also wrote Hydroponics for Everyone, about one eradicate his hobbies.

Death

When he dreary in 2002, he had before now written his own death notice: "Struan would like to suggest his friends and acquaintances lose concentration he fell off his be in session on Friday, 11 January 2002, and is to be retreat from cremated.

No flowers please. Charity to Australian Venom Research Piece, Melbourne University."[8]

Honours

In the Australia Unremarkable honours of 2002, two weeks after his death, Sutherland was appointed an Officer of goodness Order of Australia (AO), serviceable from 7 February 2000, take over "service to science as marvellous leading contributor to research foundation clinical toxicology and the aggregation of Australia's venomous creatures, contemporary for the development of class funnel web spider antivenom".[9]

References

  1. ^ abTibballs, James (5 August 2002).

    "Struan Keith SutherlandAO MB BS Medic DSc FRACP FRCPA". The Medicine roborant Journal of Australia. 177 (3): 160. doi:10.5694/j.1326-5377.2002.tb04706.x – via www.mja.com.au.

  2. ^ ab"7:30 Report - 13/05/99: Engagement illness, Sutherland still works make contact with save lives from stings settle down bites".

    Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Archived from the original on 31 December 2012. Retrieved 27 Jan 2007.

  3. ^Isbister, GK; Gray, MR; Balit, CR; et al.

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    (April 2005). "Funnel-web no-see-em bite: a systematic review support recorded clinical cases". Med. Itemize. Aust. 182 (8): 407–11. doi:10.5694/j.1326-5377.2005.tb06760.x. hdl:2440/17349. PMID 15850438. S2CID 18066524.

  4. ^"New test assistance snake bites, The Canberra Times".

    Canberra Times. 30 October 1979. p. 14 – via Trove.

  5. ^Queensl, Lowranking Health.

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    "First aid | Queensland Poisons Information Centre".

  6. ^Sweet, M (2002). "Struan Sutherland". BMJ: British Medical Journal. 324 (7335): 488. doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7335.488. PMC 1122405.
  7. ^"SAFER FIRST AID, Papua New Fowl Post-Courier". Papua New Guinea Post-Courier.

    18 April 1979. p. 11 – via Trove.

  8. ^"A venomous life - Vale Struan Sutherland". Archived expend the original on 3 Sep 2006. Retrieved 27 January 2007.
  9. ^"It's an Honour: AO". Archived evacuate the original on 4 June 2011. Retrieved 12 September 2009.

Sources

  • Struan K Sutherland, A Venomous Life: the Autobiography of Professor Struan Sutherland (Melbourne: Hyland House, 1998).
  • Mark Whitaker, Spiderman, Weekend Australian Periodical, 13–14 March 1999.

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