Do I need to wash my hands before surgery?
Today, hygiene requirements in hospitals are observed in the strictest order. But it was not always so. The discoverer in this area was a doctor from Hungary Ignash Semmelweis. He analyzed the high mortality rate in one of the departments of the hospital in Vienna. It was the delivery room. No one could understand why the mothers here were much more likely than other departments to die from blood poisoning( postpartum sepsis).
Ignash Semmelweis found that in the maternity ward worked the same medical students who had previously been involved in the opening of corpses in the infectious department. The Hungarian doctor suggested that "cadaverous particles" could remain on the hands of students. That's what could be the cause of complications in parturient women. The conclusion is simple - hands to wash thoroughly, and tools to handle bleach. Nothing like this before doctors did not do! The measure proposed by Semmelweis turned out to be very effective.
It is interesting that during his lifetime, having made such a global discovery, Ignash Semmelweis practically could not find supporters of his theory of "cadaverous particles".The doctor-innovator, as we said today, was fired from the hospital. By some strange irony of fate, a Hungarian doctor died of blood poisoning. Here such history has occurred with the person who is considered the founder of hygiene.
In pharmacies in America and Europe you will not find well-known to us "zelenok"
Dye brilliant green, popularly called "green", is used to treat wounds exclusively in the countries of the former Soviet Union. In Europe and America, there is no ban on "greenery", of course, not. It's just that nobody uses it.
Russian experts say that there are several explanations why it happened:
- in Western countries profess the doctrine of medicine, which is called evidence. So, no one has yet fully studied the mechanism of the action of "green" at the molecular level;
- there is no scientific research to answer the question, is not diamond green a carcinogen;
- in the Western world are so fond of the aesthetic side of the process that they do not allow themselves to paint the patient, even for his good, in the colors of the preparations.