Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Improvements In surgery
1845-1919
- Anaesthetics
- 1799- FIRST Anaesthetic = Nitrous Oxide
(Davey)
- Not strong enough,
made people giggle
- 1846- SECOND Anaesthetic=
Ether (Liston)
- Vomiting, Flammable, Irritant
- Knocked out patient for a long time,
- 1847- BEST Anaesthetic (Simpson)
- Hannah Greener died from
overdose along with many
others
- 1848- JOHN SNOW - chloroform inhaler
- Queen Victoria used it succesfully
- Antiseptics
- SEMMELWEIS
- Noticed women getting 'child bed fever'
from bacteria carried across from the
surgery theatre to the labour room on
surgeons hands
- His big idea- wash hands with chlorinated solution
- No one listened- he had no evidence
- LISTER
- Suggested the use of Carbolic Acid
- To sterilise doctor's tools and hands
- Made an improvement, to a carbolic spray
to sterilise operating table and air around
- Antiseptic ligatures
- People believed him over Semmelweis
- Read Pasteur's Germ theory
- Blood Transfusions
- FIRST transfusions- to give
murderers peaceful
characteristics
- Died in agony
- Problems with Blood loss
- Patients = bleed to death
- Difficult for
surgeon to see
what they are
doing
- Slippery surfaces
and tools- dangerous
- How they dealt with it
- Turniquet
- Ligatures
- Cauterisation
- 1901- Karl Lansteiner- blood
groups A, B and O
- AB discovered 1902
- 1915- Lewisonn
- Sodium nitrated added
to blood- stopped
clotting.
- 1916- Rous and Turner
- Citrate glucose-
blood lasted
longer
- 1917- First Blood Bank