The role of war in the development of surgery
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- The role of war in the development of surgery
- Improved surgery of the eye, ear and throat.
- The first brain surgery took place during the first world war.
- Surgeons had to make early attempts of brain surgery as a result of some of the wounds that were received.
- Between 1914 and 1921, 41,000 men in the British armed forced lost a limb.
- This led to advances in prosthetic limbs, including light metal alloys.
- Despite this, the waiting lists to receive prosthetic limbs were long.
- This led to advances in prosthetic limbs, including light metal alloys.
- Uses of explosives meant that soldiers were suffering from deep wounds. Fragments of clothing would also usually enter this wound.
- Surgeons cut away at the infected tissue and soaked the wound in saline solution.
- Despite this serious infections could still not be dealt with until antibiotics were developed later.,
- Surgeons cut away at the infected tissue and soaked the wound in saline solution.
- New hospitals were built and x-ray machinery was developed
- More soldiers could be treated
- Surgeons could now spot bullets and shrapnel inside the body and remove them.
- Harold Gillies introduced plastic surgery by repairing skin with skin grafting and pedicle tubes
- He was able to achieve realistic and natural results with this technique.
- He kept records so that he could e copied.
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