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Explain Why Improvements Were Needed In Surgery During The Nineteenth Century.
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Explain Why Improvements Were Needed In Surgery During The Nineteenth Century. During the nineteenth century improvements were needed in surgery - one in five patients would die during or after surgery. Both medical and surgical knowledge was primitive and although amputation was the only successful form of surgery, it was risky and many people died from bleeding, infection, blood poisoning and haemorrhaging. Clinical shock was also a major problem. It was caused by a major drop in blood pressure and was a problem both in operating theatres and on the battlefields. This was a problem that needed to be overcome. During the nineteenth century operating theatre were not a very sterile environment and often infection would be spread by the doctors themselves. Doctors would wear their oldest coats, which were not changed for months. These coats would be coated with blood and puss. The threads that were used to tie up the...
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