Pain/Infection

Question 1

What was the most common type of operation before the development of anaesthetics?

Answer 1

Amputation

Question 2

Who discovered Nitrous Oxide and when?

Answer 2

Humphrey Davy in 1799

Question 3

What was the problem with Nitrous Oxide?

Answer 3

Didn’t knock the patient out

Question 4

What was the name of the America surgeon to first use ether and in what year?

Answer 4

John Collins Warren in 1846

Question 5

What was the name of the first British surgeon to use ether?

Answer 5

Robert Liston

Question 6

Name 2 problems with ether

Answer 6

Flammable, heavy to carry, irritated lungs, eyes, made people vomit

Question 7

What was the name of the first effective anaesthetic and when was it discovered?

Answer 7

Chloroform in 1847

Question 8

What was the name of the person who discovered chloroform while having a ‘chemical party’?

Answer 8

James Simpson

Question 9

Which VIP made chloroform popular on the birth of her 8th child in 1853?

Answer 9

Queen Victoria or Charles Dickens’ wife

Question 10

Who invented the inhaler to regulate dosage?

Answer 10

John Snow

Question 11

What event showed there was a problem with dosage in 1848?

Answer 11

Hannah Greener’s death

Question 12

Give 2 reasons why chloroform was opposed

Answer 12

Unknown dosage, unknown side effects, people believed it was God’s will for women to feel pain in childbirth

Question 13

What was the period between the discovery of effective anaesthetics and antiseptics called?

Answer 13

Black Period of Surgery - 1847-1867

Question 14

Who read Pasteur’s work and discovered the use of carbolic acid as an antiseptic and when?

Answer 14

Joseph Lister in 1867

Question 15

Who could have brought an early end to the higher death rate after anaesthetics?

Answer 15

Semmelweis

Question 16

What was the name of the equipment that administered carbolic acid?

Answer 16

Donkey engine

Question 17

What made the discoverer of carbolic acid make the connection other than Pasteur’s work?

Answer 17

It was used to clean Glasgow sewers

Question 18

What type of injury was carbolic acid first tested on?

Answer 18

A compound fracture

Question 19

Joseph Lister went on to use catgut as it could be sterilised and used to stitch wounds. True or False

Answer 19

True

Question 20

What is aseptic surgery

Answer 20

When everything is sterilised outside the operation theatre

Question 21

Who discovered the steam steriliser?

Answer 21

Koch

Question 22

What was the name of the medical journal where the discoveries of anaesthetics and antiseptics were published for doctors to read?

Answer 22

The Lancet

Question 23

What is gangrene?

Answer 23

When cells die when wounds are infected

Question 24

Who invented rubber gloves?

Answer 24

Halstead

Question 25

By how much did the death rate drop after antiseptics were used in surgery?

Answer 25

45% to 15%