Surgery Basic Mindmap
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- Created on: 28-03-13 13:39
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- Surgery
- The work of Simpson and Lister led too...
- Operations = Less Painful
- Delicate Operations could be performed
- Patients would no longer bleed to death
- There was a higher chance of survival for patients as there was less chance for blood loss/infection/pain
- 1850 Operating rooms
- Operating rooms were dirty
- Wood shavings (sawdust) were used to soak up the blood
- Surgeons wore dirty coats covered in blood and pus
- Ordinary String was used to tie of arteries
- Instruments were rarely washed
- 1850's Results
- Many died of shock from the intense pain and trauma
- Wounds were infected by Septicaemia and Gangrene
- Many died afterwards as their wounds did not heal properly
- Humphrey Davy
- Discovered that nitrous oxide deadened pain
- American Dentist Horace Wells continued with Humphrey's findings. He used it in 1844.
- Nitrous Oxide did not have the same effect on everyone and so was not the answer to pain.
- The work of Simpson and Lister led too...
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