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10-04-2014, 10:17 AM | #1 | |
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A detailed example of good low tech surgery
There seems to be a general interest in the potential for the application of advanced knowledge in low tech conditions. I ran across this and thought it would be of interest.
This is from: THE DEVELOPMENT OF 'SCIENTIFIC' MEDICINE IN THE AFRICAN KINGDOM OF BUNYORO-KITARA by JNP Davies Quote:
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10-06-2014, 10:26 AM | #2 |
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Re: A detailed example of good low tech surgery
Does he mention whether or not the mother survived?
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10-06-2014, 01:10 PM | #3 | |
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Re: A detailed example of good low tech surgery
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10-06-2014, 01:49 PM | #4 |
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Re: A detailed example of good low tech surgery
I would expect that if sepsis had not set in by that point, it would have required extreme ill luck for it to do so thereafter ... seems to be a pretty successful operation for the time: IIRC it would be into the C20 before a woman could remain fertile after a Caesar and within the last 20-30 years that technique allowed a natural delivery to follow a Caesar. I would guess most European surgeons couldn't be sure of their patient in 1879 and, as you say, would have probably been less effective prior to that.
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10-06-2014, 04:32 PM | #5 |
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Re: A detailed example of good low tech surgery
My mother had a Caesarian in 1949 followed by vaginal deliveries in 1951, 1953, 1954, 1957, and 1964. It wasn't even considered especially remarkable.
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10-06-2014, 04:35 PM | #6 |
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Re: A detailed example of good low tech surgery
I'm not sure if the procedure described actually qualifies as TL 4 or less. I realize that Uganda probably wasn't TL5 in 1879 overall, but this procedure seems to have most of the features of late TL5 (or even early TL6, though without anesthesia) surgery...
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10-06-2014, 09:04 PM | #7 | |
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No insult intended. Everyone's memory changes over time. Heck, it could have been dangerous and her doctors downplayed the danger erroneously.
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