SWHS surgery
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- Created on: 27-08-15 19:10
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- Surgery
- Ether Gas
- Deep sleep for days
- Highly flammable
- Irritated lungs
- Made patients vomit
- Carried In large bottles
- Harold Gillies
- Discovered pedical tubes that was a layer of skin that was cut from the body and stitched together to create a tube
- Set up a plastic surgery unit in the British army
- Plastic surgery had to be carried out in small stages
- His work was viewed with suspicion
- He was setback as antibiotics hadn't been invented yet and infection was still a problem
- Blood Loss
- Ligatures were silk thread that was used to tie blood vessels together after an amputation
- Blood transfusion had to use two of the same blood types A,B,O and AB
- Richard Lewisohn found that using sodium citrate stopped the blood from clotting.
- The different blood types were discovered by Karl Landsteiner
- Saline solution was used to disinfect cut away tissue
- In 1917 the first blood depot was established
- Aseptic Conditions
- Hair Nets
- Instruments Sterilized
- Organised
- No audience
- Maximum Hygeine
- Patient Covered
- Gowns
- Face Masks
- Antiseptic Conditions
- Crowded
- No masks or hair nets
- Wore Aprons
- Easily cleaned floors and walls
- Bowls moved dirty equipment quickly
- Equipment Sterilized in Carbolic Acid
- Joseph Lister
- Used carbolic acid to sterilize equipment and bandages
- Introduced the use of catgut
- Surgeon at Glasgow infirmary
- Used carbolic acid to prevent infection succesfully
- Given the title of baronet in 1883
- Professor of surgery at Glasgow uni.
- Ether Gas
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