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Ways WW1 helped surgery to advance - Coggle Diagram
Ways WW1 helped surgery to advance
Shell Shock
Led to ppanic attacks
Led to lack of speech or moevemnt
Government refused to belive it existed - men were treated like cowards
Because there were so many cases, it proved it existed
Created a condition called PTSD
Blood Transfusions
Tried for centuries prior
In 1900 scientists discovered how to do them (successfully)
Discovered it only worked if the blood types matched
In 1914 - Albert Hustin discovered glucose and sodium citrate stopped blood clots
Also at this time, blood could be bottled, packed in ice and taken to soldiers
X-Rays
During WW2, mobile X-rays were used near battlefields
Used to find out where bullets or pieces of shrapnel were in the body without surgery.
Discovered in 1895
Plastic Surgery
WW1 - Harold Gillies working on plastic surgery
Set up a unit to transplant skin and treat men suffering facial wounds.
(1st surgeon to consider a patient's appearance when treating)
Queen's hospital (1917) by 1921 provided over 1000 beds for soldiers
Treated over 5000 soldiers by this time too
Infection
Gangrene was common (battlefields were dirty)
Surgeons worked out cutting infected flesh and soaking in salty water was a solution
Saved many lives, even though not ideal.
Broken Bones
Army Leg Splint/Keller-Blake Splint
Elevated and extended broken leg
Helped bones knit together securley
Splints still regularly used with broken bones