An operation theater also defined as a surgery room is a medical facility. It's where surgical procedures are conducted in an aseptic atmosphere. Traditionally, the word "operating theatre" applied to a non-sterile, centralized theater or atrium where surgeons could be watched by students and other visitors. Modern operating rooms lack a setup for the theatre, trying to make the term "operating theatre" a common misconception. Just two old-style operating theaters are left, which are both retained as part of museums. The following two old style operating theatres are discussed hereby:
Herb Garret
London, England
The museum was created by St Thomas’s doctor Richard Mead. He had a fascinating treatment for hemorrhagic illnesses: snail water anybody? There is also a set of equipment for cupping, bleeding and surgical excision, or skull-drilling, at the operating theater. An old apothecary, officially known as the "Herb Garret" is of value at the attic. It filled the entire space before allowing a way for the operating theatre.
It is all up in the roof of a magnificent English Baroque church, finalize with galleries of wooden spectators. Some elementary schools are going to take students on camping trips here. It is Europe's oldest operational theatre, and worth a tour for the access staircase itself.
Located in the attic of St. Thomas Church, the oldest remaining operating theater in Britain looks a lot like it would have in 1822. It was thus identified by one surgeon who worked there. He quoted that the other dressers reserved the first two lines. And the pupils stood behind a second divide, packed like herrings in a jar, but not so silent. The patient in the operating room must have been conscious. And looking at the surgeon right back, because anesthetics were not in effect yet. Patients received a wooden cane instead of anesthetics, to suck on to muffle the cries. Surgeons depended on simple imputation methods. The quicker you could extract a limb the better you were a doctor. And the better the patients' recovery rates.
Many patients died of infection, with only about one in three surviving the procedure. And the old frock coats worn by surgeons during operations were, according to a contemporary. Stiff and stinking with pus and blood.’ On the plus side, dead bodies could be used for dissection. And also further teaching of anatomy.
Patients were brought into the theatre via a now-closed opening in the wall behind the current chalkboard. It led straight into the ward, where other patients were unfortunate enough to still be able to hear the screams during the operations. Often amputations of limbs, the ground was covered in sawdust to soak up the blood. But there was still enough of it for the original floorboards to show a lot of blood in later chemical analysis.
America&'s Oldest Operating Theater
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The operating theater was the first of its type in USA, built-in 1804 and used until 1868. The amphitheater building has helped to establish surgery and make it into a known medical discipline. Of course, in 1804 you would always not have liked to be the one on the table. "Whisky, heroin, or mallet?
An operation theater in the early 1800s was very simple. It was a mix of medical operating room and stage theatre, complete with an unruly crowd of young doctors, anxious "performers," and physical comedies. Students congested into the seats to see how a specific operation was conducted, or just for an afternoon demonstration.
Disinfectant, anesthetics, and some sense of the safety of a patient have yet to be discovered. The surgeon's primary tool in the days preceding medical anesthesia was the velocity. At which they could detach the limb from the trunk. Patients were offered a generous choice of heroin, liquor, or a knock on their heads. With a mallet to cause them lost their consciousness. This is America's oldest medical theatre, where the screaming can be heard in reality.
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