Treatments Flashcards
How many deaths were actually bullet wounds rather than shrapnel, infection and head injury?
39% only!!!
What was it called to cut away the dead tissue?
Wound excision
What was the Carell Dakin method?
Sterilised salt solution would be flushing the wound via a tube to prevent gangrene.
What were X-rays used for?
To detect shrapnel.
2 features of blood transfusions?
1915 Lewisohn added sodium citrate to allow blood to be transported and not clot.
It could also be refrigerated for 2 days, this lead to the first blood bank at the battle of Cambrai 1918
Plastic surgery?
Soldiers who had been caught in explosions suffered facial disfigurement, leading to the development of facial reconstruction.
Gilles used pedicle tubes of skin to make sure the tissue he transferred had blood supply and wouldn’t die during treatment.
Brain surgery ?
The developments of local anaesthetic rather than general meant less people died as they were asleep as it took place.
