Surgery
3 main problems within surgery
- Created by: katonacloud
- Created on: 17-06-13 10:10
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- Surgery
- Bleeding
- Doctor cut into patient they could end up killing them from blood loss
- Made them only use surgery as a last resort
- Didn't operate inside the body
- Blood transfusions
- Used blood from people
- Some survived
- Many didn't = blood groups
- Blood clotted making transfusion impossible
- SOLUTIONS
- 1901 = 4 blood groups discovered
- Found how to store blood
- Corpulses seperated from blood
- Add Saline and blood ready
- Used blood from people
- Doctor cut into patient they could end up killing them from blood loss
- Pain
- People died from the shock
- SOLUTIONS
- Ether
- made patient cough
- Flammable
- Used by Queen Victoria
- Laughing gas
- Didn't work for everyone
- Choloform
- Simpson tested on friends = all passed out
- OPPOSITION
- Army =Better for a man to die screaming than quietly
- Church= woman should suffer child birth -> God
- Doctors= patients died -> dosage controll
- Ether
- Infection
- Doctors didn't clean clothes for next operation
- more blood = better doctor
- Pass on infection from patient to patient
- If survived operation they would still die from infection
- Lister
- Read Pasteurs Germ theroy
- Carbolic acid
- Invented spray that could be use in operating theatres
- OPPOSITION
- NEW
- Didn't believe in germs
- Time consuming
- Irritation on hands
- Patients dying decreased
- Doctors didn't clean clothes for next operation
- Bleeding
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