Treatments and Surgery Flashcards
Treating wounds and infection– Problem?
Infection in surgical wounds that caused so many deaths in the mid 1800s
Treating wounds and infection–Improvement?
His use of antiseptic surgery killed the bacteria that developed in wounds.It also stopped amputation.
Treating wounds and infection– Benefits?
It was a continuous treatment and it did reduce the number of amputations that resulted from infection.
Mobile X-Ray Machines– Problem?
Many casualties had been wounded by bullets, shrapnel and tiny fragments of these objects,all of which needed to be located to make surgery faster and more effective.
Mobile X-Ray Machines–Improvement?
Helped surgery become more effective and faster and could help doctors locate wounds.
Mobile X-Ray Machines–Benefits?
Effectiveness of surgery/reduced the death rate from infections/ more of them/they are easy to move around.
Blood Transfusions– Problem?
How to store blood without it clotting.The war made this more urgent.
Blood Transfusions– Improvement?
Set up in 1917 (Battle of Cambrai) Added sodium citrate to stop the blood from clotting ___Sodium citrate+ glucose to store it for up to two days.
Plastic Surgery– Problem?
Plastic surgery helped many injured men by replacing what had been lost and covering facial disfigurement. However, it had always been limited by the danger of infection and the absence of anaesthetics.
Plastic Surgery– Improvement?
The 19th century paved the way for surgeons to make progress. The use of skin grafts-taking skin from another part of the body and grafting it into the area of the wound.
Plastic Surgey– Benefits?
November 1915- France had specialist areas for dealing with it and helped many men recover/fix their horrendous injuries.
Brain Surgery– Problem?
The number of serious head injuries was another unusual feature of the early part of the war. Because soldiers were standing in the trenches, their heads were the most vulnerable target which caused many wounds.
Brain Surgery– Improvement?
Putting 2 rubber bands round the head to put pressure on the wounds to reduce bleeding/soldiers given blood transfusions and saline solutions to reduce shock/x-rays helped locate and identify wounds.
Brain Surgery–Benefits?
Surgeons developed new techniques and improved their skills/ soldiers were kept alive and fit enough to cope with operations
Thomas Splint– Problem?
There was only were simple splints to fix the wounded leg which didn’t help the broken ends and caused considerable blood loss.
