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Improvements In surgery 1845-1919
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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
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