Modern: How did War and Technology develop surgery?

Question 1

Why did war help the development of healthcare?

Answer 1

1. Soldiers would fight better if they were less sick.
2. Wounded soldiers gave doctors more opportunities to experiment with new ideas.

Question 2

When was plastic surgery first developed?

Answer 2

WW1

Question 3

Who set up the plastic surgery unit in the Army?

Answer 3

British Army - plastic surgery unit set up by Harold Gillies

Question 4

How did Gillies help soldiers in the War?

Answer 4

Helped reconstruct faces, developed pedicle tubes

Question 5

When was the first blood transfusion?

Answer 5

First blood transfusion in 1900

Question 6

Who discovered blood groups?

Answer 6

Karl Landsteiner

Question 7

Who invented X-rays and when?

Answer 7

Wilhelm Rontgen in 1895

Question 8

What were X-rays used for?

Answer 8

Finding broken bones

Question 9

How were old-fashioned X-rays unreliable?

Answer 9

1. Hospitals located far from battlefields
2. Equipment often unreliable

Question 10

Who invented the reliable, more modern X-ray?

Answer 10

William Coolidge in 1913

Question 11

Who developed mobile X-ray units and when?

Answer 11

Marie Curie, 1914

Question 12

Name a surgical method used in the war that is still used today.

Answer 12

The Army Leg Splint - elevated broken leg which helped bones to come together more securely.

Question 13

When was the first heart transplant and where?

Answer 13

1967, South Africa