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What does aseptic mean?
The prevention of bacteria
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What does antiseptic mean?
Killing bacteria
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What did Joseph lister do?
He used pasteurs work to learn about microbes before finding that carbolic spray could kill them
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What was carbolic spray first used for?
Used in sewage works
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Why were silk ligatures not successful?
It didn't absorb carbolic spray
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What was the main reason carbolic spray was used?
It reduced the amount of deaths
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What was first found to be a successful anaesthetic?
Nitrous oxide
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Why did they need anaesthetics?
To stop patients from going into shock from the pain
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What was nitrous oxide first used for?
Dentistry
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What was used after nitrous oxide?
Ether
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Why did people start to use chloroform instead of ether?
Ether was unpredictable and caused deaths
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Why didn't religious people agree with using chloroform in childbirth?
Childbirth was supposed to be painful and using chloroform was interferring
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Why did chloroform increase death rates?
Doctors thought they could take longer to operate- causing infection
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What did Ignaz Semmelweiss do?
Recognised the importance of hand washing in hospital
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Who discovered chloroform?
James simpson
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What happened in 1848?
Hannah greener died of a ingrown toenail- it scared
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What was catgut?
A thread to stitch up wounds
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What did karl landsteiner do?
Discover blood groups
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What was discovered to stop blood from clotting in 1914?
Sodium citrate
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What was used to dilute the blood?
Saline solution
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As well as carbolic spray what was used to kill germs?
The steam steraliser
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What did Harold Gilles invent?
Pedicle tubes- used in facial reconstruction
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What was cauterisation?
Using a hot iron to seal blood vessels and stop bleeding
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