GCSE history Surgery
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- Created on: 01-06-14 21:49
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- Pain
- Search for an anaesthetic
- Before 1800 - alcohol and opium
- Had little success in easing pain during operations
- 1844 - laughing gas was used
- patients are still conscious,
- used by dentists in USA
- From 1846 - ether
- made patient's unconscious for a long time
- could make people cough during operations and sick afterwards
- Highly flammable, transported in heavy glass bottles
- from 1847 - chloroform
- very effective with little side affects
- difficult to get the dose right and could kill people because of the effect on the heart
- from 1884 - cocain
- used as the first local anesthetic
- in 1905 novocain was used, this is less addictive and was used as general anasthetic
- Before 1800 - alcohol and opium
- impact of anaesthetic
- before anaesthetics
- surgery was painful and people died from shock
- surgeons went to fast to stop pain and blood loss
- patients had to be held down which made it difficult for surgeons
- operations were amputations or on the surface of the skin
- after discovery of anaesthetics
- surgery was pain free
- surgeons could take there time, but still had the problem of blood loss
- patents didn't struggle so it was easier for the surgeons.
- deeper surgery became possible, this meant more infections
- black period of surgery!!!!
- before anaesthetics
- Search for an anaesthetic
- Colour coded!
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