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The path from canned food to a sterile operating room

Путь от консервов до стерильной операционной | The path from canned food to a sterile operating room

The path from canned food to a sterile operating room

Two hundred years ago were invented canned food, which gave rise to the creation of equipment for disinfection and sterilization.

It was a competition for the best way to store food in the late 18th century in revolutionary France, and the chef Nicolas Appert won, who offered to store ready-made meals in sealed containers. The invention was immediately put on stream for Napoleon's army.

Appert created a steam sterilizer in the early 1800s. The basic concept has remained until now.

The history of sterilization begins, of course, before Appert - since the first surgeon rubbed his stone or obsidian knife with plantain or camomile.

Ordering of knowledge of hygiene and sterilization appeared in the ancient world. The first information about the impact of the environment on health was given in the Hippocratic treatise "On Airs, waters and places". For real hygiene, and as a result, sterilization, began to develop in ancient Rome. It was in Rome that surgical instruments has been calcined in the fire.

Surgery has become a forbidden pastime in medieval Europe. Equipment for disinfection and sterilization was nonexistent.

Interest in the human body and to the true cause of disease reappears in the Renaissance. In 1796 Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland published "Macrobiotics" - a manual on all aspects of personal hygiene.

It would seem that a real breakthrough has come true, but the sterilization remained in very poor condition. Multiple gunshot wounds to the Thirty Years War were treated with boiling oil.

A breakthrough in the history of equipment for disinfection and sterilization occurred in the XIX century. Prior to this, surgeons was operated in casual clothes, operating room was almost never washed. Mortality after surgery was reached up to 90%. But it was not until English surgeon Joseph Lister had proved the correlation between bacteria and infections.

Lister's method consisted of application to the wound a three-layer bandage impregnated with carbolic acid, carbolic acid spraying in the air operating room. It was the first major victory of hygiene.

Based on Lister experiments Johnson & Johnson company produced the aseptic surgical bandage and the first dry heat installation. However, this was not the equipment for disinfection and sterilization in the traditional sense. The device was a box with two compartments.
Instruments was fried on trays in one of these compartments, and treated with steam in the other.

However, the equipment for disinfection and sterilization was not widespread at that time. The first medical autoclaves were so huge, that only big hospitals could afford them, the rest of the clinic was boiled tools in cuvettes with carbolic acid.

Today, technology of equipment for disinfection and sterilization has been tested and constantly improved. Heat cabinet rooted in the past, autoclaves put into practice.

Due to the wide introduction of the new equipment for disinfection and sterilization security of patients is growing. But the history of sterilization is not complete until the bacteria retain the ability to mutate.

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