Blood loss

Question 1

By the end of the 19th century what was the main problem with surgery?

Answer 1

Blood loss

Question 2

What was the early method of dealing with blood loss?

Answer 2

Cauterisation

Question 3

What did doctors use to try and stem the flow of blood?

Answer 3

Tourniquets

Question 4

Why were early blood transfusions sometimes not successful?

Answer 4

No knowledge of blood groups

Question 5

What animal did they transfer blood from for early transfusions?

Answer 5

Sheep

Question 6

Who discovered blood groups?

Answer 6

Landsteiner

Question 7

When were blood groups discovered?

Answer 7

1900

Question 8

What did Landsteiner prove about why there were some incompatible blood types?

Answer 8

Different antibodies

Question 9

The first successful transfusion took place in 1907 by the American doctor Reuben Ottenberg. T or F?

Answer 9

True

Question 10

What was the problem with storing blood outside of the body?

Answer 10

Clotted

Question 11

What’s found to stop blood clotting in 1914?

Answer 11

Sodium citrate

Question 12

Which british surgeon gave some successful blood transfusions?

Answer 12

James Blundell

Question 13

Sodium citrate separated the blood so it could be stored and packed in ice. What was needed to dilute it and make usable blood?

Answer 13

Saline

Question 14

When was the first blood bank set up?

Answer 14

1917

Question 15

Where was the first blood bank set up?

Answer 15

Battle of Cambrai

Question 16

Why was the first world war important for medicine

Answer 16

Lots of injuries = practice for surgeons.

Question 17

Who developed plastic surgery as a result of horrific shrapnel wounds?

Answer 17

Harold Gilles

Question 18

What was the Waltzing pedicle?

Answer 18

Grafting skin in tube

Question 19

Name 3 ways that doctors communicated ideas

Answer 19

Journals - The Lancet
Newspapers
Conferences

Question 20

When were x rays developed

Answer 20

1895

Question 21

When was the hypodermic needle invented?

Answer 21

1853