Shilling Test

What is the **Shilling Test?**

Robert Schilling (born December 3, 1882, New York - died September 5, 1967, Philadelphia) was an American pediatrician. He works at the New York Research Institute of Childhood Diseases (the institute is located at the Roosevelt Hospital). Author of works on child pathology. In 1954, the Association of American Pediatricians, which he founded, was formed and was one of the organizers of the First World Pediatric Conference. For some time he was dean of the School of Pediatrics at Johns Hopkins University.

A general practitioner with excellent knowledge of pathological anatomy, physiology, biochemistry and bacteriology. He made a significant contribution to the improvement of surgical methods used to treat children with heart defects. Schilling himself performed his first heart surgery on December 26, 1943, at the age of forty. Early studies focused on muscle pathology in newborns. By shifting the start date of preventive immunoprophylaxis, he thereby strengthened the indications for this vaccination. In addition, Schilling studied in great detail the interaction of the nervous and endocrine systems in newborns during their adaptation to extrauterine life. He studied the nervous system of children with pathologies of other organs. With the discovery of the phenomenon of the unstained layer by Schilling and his colleagues, the method of diagnosing and identifying chromosomal abnormalities was significantly simplified.

In addition, Schilly created a new dressing technique to prevent the formation of severe scars (Z-constriction (Z-scar) technique or Z-plasty), which can be used to safely transfer fascia and muscle tissue to the face, cheek or lips. A method of surgical treatment of a closed double jaw fracture has also appeared. Robert Schilling's less popular achievements include the first procedure to repair a damaged eye. Today this method is used quite often in the presence of an injured cornea.