INFECTION
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- Created on: 17-06-17 17:23
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- INFECTION
- after operation people would die a few days later die to gangrene or sepsis. infection and decay that produced strong smell of rotting flesh
- Why did so many people die?
- operations carried out at home pr hospitals where not anseptic
- surgeons and spectators where in casual clothes
- surgeon wore coats with large amounts of blood and pus
- although surgeon washed his hands the equipment was dirty
- SEPSIS
- a condition which harmful bacteria affect the flesh normally leading to infection and decaying flesh
- ANTISEPTIC
- something that fifths against sepsis and the microbes that cause infection
- ASEPTIC
- sterile, free from the microbes that cause disease
- SEMMELWEISS noticed that more women died from deliveries by medical students.
- child bed fever. Dissecting dead bodies
- made students wash ha ds witch chlorinated solution death rate dropped greatly. other dotors made fun of him and he was saced. he was an obtitricion
- FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE high standards of hygiene
- washing hands
- one patient per bed
- speacilsed meals
- regular changing of bandages and bedsheet
- however she belived in miasma
- insisted that bandages were done tightly due oxygen encouraging infection . now we know that that those hot conditions encouraged the growth of bacteria
- everything was sprayed , including surgeons hands knives and pateinets
- JOSEPH LISTER
- soaked bandages in carbolic acid which he believed killed microbes due to researching pastures work
- he found it being used by sewage workers to kill parasites 1864
- he found that there was sign or infection after 6 weeks
- he tested this on an 11 year old boy with a compound fracture
- OTHER ACHEIVMENTS
- silk doesn't absorb carbolic acid so catgut was used instead and it naturally dissolve after several days
- a thread of silk would have to left out after stiches so it could be pulled out
- received the title of baronet in 1883 and became Baron in 1897
- 1867 he confirmed that his ward was infection free
- OPPOSTION
- some doctors didn't think his ideas were right as you couldn't see them without a microscopre
- work of Koch helped convince them
- carbolic solution slowed down operations
- doctors laughed at his germs
- lister changed his methods- people thought he wasn't sure of his ideas
- cracked the skin of niurses
- hard to transport expensive
- some doctors didn't think his ideas were right as you couldn't see them without a microscopre
- soaked bandages in carbolic acid which he believed killed microbes due to researching pastures work
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