surgery problems the problems of Pain, infection and surgical shock before the surgery revolution 3.0 / 5 based on 3 ratings ? HistoryMedicine through time (OCR History A)GCSE Created by: Thegirlwhoknewtoomuch - Team GRCreated on: 29-05-12 16:36 Pain surgery was done only under natural anasthetics such as alcohol and opium. patients would get drunk before a operation or get a boxer to knock them out operations were terrifying for the patient patients died during the operation from pain or from post operative shock operations had to be quick to reduce the how long the pain was felt by the patient patients had to be strapped in so they didn't move so much because of the pain. 1 of 3 Infection operations carried out under unhygenic conditions wounds would easily get infected. patients died from infected wounds doctors wore everyday clothes that were sometimes covered in the blood of a previous patient. sugical instriments wern't sterilised. this happened before pasteurs germ theory in 1861, so no one knew the importance of clean conditions for operations. 2 of 3 Surgical shock blood loss there was no way of stopping blood loss during operations many patients died from blood loss during operations 3 of 3
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