Carbolic Acid
- Created by: Stephers
- Created on: 25-04-14 22:15
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- Joseph Lister's use of Carbolic Acid
- Surgeons still believed in speed
- Lister's antiseptic methods slowed things down
- Washing hands/ spraying tables wasted time
- Still lots of blood loss
- Aseptic Surgery
- Operating theatres and hospitals vigorously cleaned
- Instruments were steam sterilised
- Rubber gloves, operating gowns and face masks worn
- Soaked the operating theatre
- Carbolic spray had a strong smell
- It cracked surgeons skin
- Made operations more expensive
- Made operations difficult
- Improvements
- 1) Carbolic handwashing
- 2) Carbolic spray - all over the operating theatre
- 3) Antiseptic ligatures
- Hard to accept
- Tiny miro-organisms were hard to believe in
- Jokes made about flying microbes
- More ambitious operations
- Appendix removal
- First heart operation
- Surgeons still believed in speed
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