Three Barriers to Surgery
Sorry if the colour coding is confusing - it helps me remember things
- pink = key dates
- yellow = key people and discoveries
- grey = unsuccessful/incorrect ideas
- red = problems with discoveries
- green = how different factors affected progress
- Created by: Ellen Stickland
- Created on: 28-05-14 15:17
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- Surgery
- Infection
- 1861
- Louis Pasteur's Germ Theory
- Spontaneous germ theory
- Lister's antiseptic work
- William Holstead
- Introduced use of surgical clothes
- Rubber gloves
- Introduced use of surgical clothes
- William Holstead
- Louis Pasteur's Germ Theory
- 1867
- Lister's carbolic spray
- Difficult for other people to use.
- Lister's carbolic spray
- 1878
- Robert Koch's steam steriliser
- 1861
- Pain
- 1846
- William Morton - ether
- Irritated the throat
- Lister - first ether amputation
- William Morton - ether
- 1847
- James Simpson - chloroform
- Slowed the heart - often stopped it.
- 1848
- John Snow - chloroform inhaler
- 1848
- 1848
- John Snow - chloroform inhaler
- Slowed the heart - often stopped it.
- James Simpson - chloroform
- 1846
- Blood Loss
- 1901
- Karl Landsteiner discovered blood groups
- Transfusions hadn't always been successful before this knowledge.
- Karl Landsteiner discovered blood groups
- Research aided by WW1
- French government banned transfusions
- 1916
- Sodium citrate prevents clotting.
- 1901
- Infection
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