Modern Surgery
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- Modern Surgery
- Infection
- Penicillin was useful for treating infection in deep wounds
- Cut away infected flesh and soak wound in saline solution.
- Pain
- Begun to inject chloroform
- Control dosage, lower death rate and so longer operations are possible.
- Begun to inject chloroform
- Bloodloss
- 1900 Landsteiner Blood Groups
- Blood transfusions- donor and receiver blood types match
- 1914 Hustin
- Glucose and sodium citrate stopped blood clotting in air. Can be packed in ice and taken where needed.
- 1938
- British National Blood Transfusion Service.
- 1900 Landsteiner Blood Groups
- Skill
- Keyhole Surgery
- Recovery time decreases. Less pain and discomfort after surgery.
- Easier to do internal surgeries
- Small cameras make it possible
- Easier to do internal surgeries
- Recovery time decreases. Less pain and discomfort after surgery.
- Harken Heart Surgery
- Cut into hearts and removed bullets/ shrapnel with bare hands
- Laser Surgery
- 1987-eye operation. Also removes benign and malignant tumours.
- 1895 X-rays
- Look for broken bones and disease
- Army Leg Splint
- Elevates and extends broken leg. Helps knit bones together more securely.
- Transplant Surgery
- 1954-First human organ transplant successful. (kidney). 1960- UK 1967-Heart-South Africa
- Plastic Surgery
- Gilles-Skingrafts
- Hospital for facial surgery- Kent-1917
- Gilles-Skingrafts
- 1948- NHS set up
- Keyhole Surgery
- Infection
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