transformation of surgery Flashcards

1
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what doe PILES stand for?

A
Pain
infection
loss of blood
enviroment
surgical tools
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2
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whats barber surgeon?

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someone with no priro eduction who woked at a barbers

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what did barber surgeon usally do?

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let blood
extract teeth
simple operations
sell medicines
cut hair
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who was Pare and what did he do?

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he was a barber surgoen and worked at war.
he was told to use boiling oil and cauterising with heat on th wounds, wen this run out he went backt o nautral remdies and bandages, this wokred and healed the wounds better/quicker. he also invented silk ligatures

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5
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who discovered nitrus oxide?

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Laughing gas

Humphrey davy

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6
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when was nurtus oxide first used?

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by Horace wells in a tooth extraction

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7
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why was nitrus oxide bad?

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it didnt last very long and it caused patients to move and laugh

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8
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who discovered ether?

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william morton 1846

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9
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what were the drawbacks of ether?

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irrated the lungs
induced vomiting
highly explosive
hard to transport and administer

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10
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who first discovered cholorform?

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samuel gaffery by combining whiskey and chlorinated lime.

but not used will later by simpson

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what were the drawbacks of chloroform?

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it could stop the heart if too much was used/

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12
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who made choloform safe to use?

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John snow. by discovering a dosage inhaler.

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13
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how did religion oppose anaesthetics/

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the victorians were very religious and felt pain relief was against god

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14
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how were doctors against anaesthetics?

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they felf it was easier to di when uncoscious rather then struggling in pain

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how were patients aginst anaesthetics?

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they idstrusted them as they were not fully understood and many people died

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16
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who opposed anaesthetics.

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patiens
doctors
religion

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17
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what factors affected James simpons life?

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chance-his experimentaion in his discovery

technolgy, new stuff helped him+new chemisrty

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18
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what obstacles did james simpson face ?

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chruch agianst anaesthetics
doctors
complicated surgery attemped under anaesthetics but they didnt work. distrust.

19
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what did james simpon do.

A

discovered choloform after experimetationwith chemicals

20
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what did james simpons discovery lead to?

A

pain relief and the process toward aseptic sugery

21
Q

why was there so much infection between 1845-1918

A
no gloves or masks
no sterilisation unclean tools
audience=germs
clother and wigs
sawdust on floor -germs
22
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what was ignaz semmelweiss’ idea?

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use chlorinated lime when washing hands and equiptment to reduce childbed fever. he also ceaned rooms with it

23
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what happened as a result of semmelweiss’ idea? but why was he not listened to?

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childbed fever deaths went down but he was seen as mad as he has no proof in his theory( germ theory now out yet so count be linked)

24
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who was Joseph lister and what did he do?

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he was the father of antispetics.

25
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who influenced joseph lister?

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semmelweiss the microscope and the germ theory

26
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who opposed joseph lister and why? why did people not like to use his idea?

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surgens- carbolic acid used caused skin irritaion so surgery took longer. he changed his method to get it perect and people saw this as him covering up mistakes.

public- people are slow to accept change
lister was cold and aloof

27
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what was it like before lister?

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no hand washing or serilisation

28
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what helped lister in his antipeptics?

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germ theory helped him understand his ideas.
kocks ideas of septicaemia backed lister up
research into gangrene lead lister to use acid

29
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what was the short term impact of lister

A
introduced a way to redcue infection
use of gloves in 1884
use of sterilisation in 1887
aseptic sugery introduced.
sterilised catgut to tie off blodd vessels\
30
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what was the log term impact of joseph lister?

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hosptitals became cleaner
complicated sugery attempted
less infection now

31
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what did karl landsteiner discover?

A

blood groups in 1900

32
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what were basic blood transfusions like?

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they were cross species in the 17th century but it didnt always work and people didnt know why.

33
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what actualy did karl landsteiner discover about blood?

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that there were groups that had compatibility and certain groups couldnt be mixed.

34
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what was set up in 1946 after landsteiners discovery.

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the british national blood transfusion service

35
Q

who invented/discovered xrays?

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Wilhelm Roentgen in 1895

36
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who invented radiography>

A

Aritoine henri bequerel and pierre and marie curie

37
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what is radiography?

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they idscovered radioactive isotopes and used them to treat cancer in immunosupression and tumor drugs

38
Q

when was keyhole surgery developed/

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in the 1890’s

39
Q

what were the first translants of?

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a kidney in 1951 then a cornea

40
Q

what was the problem with transplants

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poor life expenctancy and lost of organ rejection

41
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what did they originaly use to stop organ transplant rejction?

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corticteroids as immunosuprenats then cyclosporin was used and approves and it has bee used since as it was better/safer.

42
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what was the imact of war on surgery, spesifically plastic surgery.

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lost of caulties= practace

43
Q

what was introduced and descovered after/during the war/

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skin grafting
xrays used to find shrapnel
medical card/records developed
false limps develped
blood storage
new saline sollution to stop infection