How was blood loss controlled?
Just a small mindmap to give a few details about how blood loss was tried to be conquered.
- Created by: Elly
- Created on: 29-05-13 12:17
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- Blood Loss
- Cautery
- Boiling oil poured into a wound and it seals it shut.
- -Stops bleeding -Goes some way to sealing wound -Seals you up so you can go back out to fight
- -Horrifyingly painful -Run out of oil -Shock -Lead to infection
- Boiling oil poured into a wound and it seals it shut.
- Clamps
- Various forms of clamps were used to restrict the flow of blood during amputations
- Small versions were used in internal surgery BUT they were not suitable for prolonged use
- -Provides a surgeon with more time to try and save the patient -An attempt to have more successful operations
- -Can't have a clamp forever -Doesn't stop pain
- Various forms of clamps were used to restrict the flow of blood during amputations
- Ligatures (Pare)
- Pare developed silk ligatures. Were threads that were used to tie off blood vessels and stop bleeding
- The thread would hang down from the wound
- Could lead to infection
- Ligatures (Lister)
- 1869, soaked in carbolic acid. Unlike silk ligatures they were cut short and dissolved inside the body
- -Dissolve inside the body -Solve the problem of infection
- Cautery
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