Surgery

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  • Created on: 26-05-15 14:11
Trephining was used to...
release 'evil spirits' that prehistoric people thought caused illness
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In prehistoric times, mud was used to...
set broken bones
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Egyptians were good at practical first aid, such as...
reseting dislocated joints, healing broken bones, bandaging and stitching
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Greeks had no evidence of internal surgery, but they did...
dissect corpses to examine internal elements of the body
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Greeks were aided by _ _ _ because more surgery was needed
war
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Romans had no evidence of internal surgery, but they did...
develop new instruments such as the c-section
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Medieval people carried out both internal and external surgery. True or False?
True
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When having external surgery in medieval times, people...
often died from bleeding, shock or infection
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Surgeons skills were in great demand in medieval times because of...
frequent warfare
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Medieval people discovered some natural anaesthetics and antiseptics such as...
wine
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Many people during medieval times were...
barber surgeons
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In the renaissance, treatment was... a) different or b) the same as the middle ages
b) the same as
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Who was Ambroise Paré?
A French army surgeon who one day after running out of oil to cauterise wounds, developed a natural remedy which healed the wounds better than the oil
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During amputations Paré used _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ to tie the arteries instead of cauterisation
ligatures
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A scientist who aided renaissance surgery was...
Edward Jenner
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Factors effecting C19th surgery include...
War, The Industrial Revolution, Scientific knowledge, Inventions and Social reasons such a Queen Victoria's labour
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In 1842, Crawford W. Long...
used ether as an anaesthetic
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What did Horace Wells attempt to do in 1845?
demonstrate that laughing gas would allow him to painlessly remove a tooth
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In 1846, Robert Liston...
removed a leg using ether
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Who was James Simpson?
he discovered Chloroform in 1847 which was an anaesthetic to allow painless surgery.
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What was a problem of using Chloroform?
the dosage was not known, and so some people never woke up
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Florence Nightingale...
improved standards, cleanliness and nursing care in hospitals
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In 1865, Joseph Lister began to use _____________ based on _______'s theory
antiseptic spray to clean surgical instruments and bandages, based on Louis Pasteur's Germ Theory
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In 1890 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ surgery began such as...
aseptic. Surgeons boiled their equipment to sterilise it
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Who were blood groups discovered by in 1901?
Karl Landsteiner
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In the 1940's, Archibald McIndoe...
learned how to surgically rebuild the faces of army pilots who had been burned during the war. This was the first evidence of plastic surgery
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The first heart transplant was performed by _______ in ____ who was ___________.
Christiaan Barnard in 1967 who was South African
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The 1990's saw an increase in...
keyhole surgery, endoscopes and ultrasound scanning
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set broken bones

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In prehistoric times, mud was used to...

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reseting dislocated joints, healing broken bones, bandaging and stitching

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Card 4

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dissect corpses to examine internal elements of the body

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war

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