Knowledge test: Surgery

Question 1

Who amputated 200 limbs in 24 hours?

Answer 1

Napoleon’s surgeon Dubois at the Battle of Borodino

Question 2

Name an operation that could be carried out in 1880?

Answer 2

Amputation, trephining, removal of superficial tumours

Question 3

What did Sir Humphry Davy discover in 1799?

Answer 3

Laughing Gas

Question 4

Who used ether as an anaesthetic in 1847?

Answer 4

Lister

Question 5

Who used chloroform as an anaesthetic in 1847?

Answer 5

Simpson

Question 6

Who died in 1848 after being given chloroform to remove her toenail?

Answer 6

Hannah Greener

Question 7

Chloroform was accepted after who used it?

Answer 7

Queen Victoria after the birth of her 8th child

Question 8

Who launched a hand washing crusade?

Answer 8

Semmelweiss

Question 9

Which antiseptic did Lister first use?

Answer 9

Carbolic acid

Question 10

Between 1864 and 1870 what did the death rate of Lister’s patients fall to?

Answer 10

From 45.7% to 15%

Question 11

What are the limitations of carbolic acid?

Answer 11

Causes cracked skin, it smells, it’s extra work for surgeons and it was an added expense

Question 12

By the 1890s Lister’s antiseptic methods had led to what type of surgery

Answer 12

Aseptic

Question 13

What was used in 1894 for the first time?

Answer 13

Sterilised rubber gloves

Question 14

Who discovered x-rays?

Answer 14

Wilhelm Rontgen in 1895

Question 15

When was it discovered that there were different blood types?

Answer 15

1901

Question 16

What were three main improvements to surgery during WWI

Answer 16

X-rays, blood transfusions, fighting infection

Question 17

Who made advances in burns patients during WWII?

Answer 17

Archibald McIndoe

Question 18

Which Russian pioneered work on skin grafts during WWII?

Answer 18

Filatov