Wars And Medecine

Question 1

X Ray development

Answer 1

Marie curie, small mobile units

Question 2

Number of X-ray machines

Answer 2

20 portable machines

Question 3

How many X-rays

Answer 3

1917-18 more than 1 million

Question 4

Blood transfusions 1901

Answer 4

Concept of blood groups

Question 5

Blood transfusions 1910

Answer 5

Sodium Citrogen used as anticoagulant

Question 6

Method of storing blood

Answer 6

Cold ethanol fractionating discovered by Geoffrey Keynes, storing the liquid of the blood to late be diluted with saline solution

Question 7

Blood transfusions 1918

Answer 7

Adding glucose treats shock

Question 8

Penicillin and Fleming

Answer 8

Rediscovered it in 1928

Question 9

Florey and Chain trial

Answer 9

8 mice then Feb 17th human test, followed by two more successful trials that summer

Question 10

Us loans

Answer 10

80 million to 4 drug companies mass production by 1943

Question 11

Uses of penicillin

Answer 11

12-15% more deaths on day from casualties 2,000,000 uses per month
Halved time allied soildures spent in hospital

Question 12

Sharing knowledge

Answer 12

Led to increased surgical skill

Question 13

Unusual injuries

Answer 13

Head eyes throat unit for abdominal wound achieved 60% survival rate for serious abdominal wounds

Surgeons begin to specialise

Question 14

Plastic surgery

Answer 14

Howard giles and his cousin Archibald mcindoe
Reconstructive surgery
Guinea pig club, 649 members

Question 15

Lasting impact on surgery

Answer 15

Blond Mcindoe burns unit
Thomas splint compound fractures from 60% death rate to 30% death rate

Radical wound excision

Question 16

Ww2 blood transfusions

Answer 16

1941 Red Cross
Dame Janet Vaughan 4 depots in London
1939 transfusions ambulance service
33 thousand transfusions in first year

1946 14 regional centres set up for national blood service