Art, craft and science of limb amputation Part 2. Сraft of amputation: from Ambroise Pare to Pierre Dionis (late XVI century – early XVIII century)
https://doi.org/10.25199/2408-9613-2021-8-2-6-27
Abstract
Since the XVI century until the beginning of the XVII century an operation of limb amputation has undergone changes and improvements that have affected all its aspects: preparation for carrying out, the technique of performing and postoperative treatment of patients. The invention of the ligature (1552) and the tourniquet (1674) became revolutionary. Wet and dry gangrene, extensive trauma to soft tissues and bones, traumatic limb amputation and osteomyelitis were considered of indications for amputation. The deontological and legal framework for amputation was developed, including the patient’s consent to the operation and the awareness of relatives about its outcomes. The article presents an instrumental and dressing apparatus of the XVII century for the operation; medicines used for general and local treatment of the patient before and after truncation of the stump; sedation and pain relief issues; technique of circular and one soft tissue flap (1679) amputation; the choice of tissue dissection level; methods of stopping bleeding (astringents, pressure bandage, cauterization, ligation and stitching of blood vessels); a method of stitching a stump wound, applying a bandage on it and strengthening it; postoperative management (regimen and diet, dressing change, staged wound treatment, complications); the phenomenon and causes of “phantom limbs”.
About the Author
S. P. Glyantsev
FSBI «A. N. Bakulev NMRC of CVS» Ministry of Health of Russia; FSBSI «N. A. Semashko NSRI of public health»
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
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Glyantsev S.P. Art, craft and science of limb amputation Part 2. Сraft of amputation: from Ambroise Pare to Pierre Dionis (late XVI century – early XVIII century). Wounds and wound infections. The prof. B.M. Kostyuchenok journal. 2021;8(2):6-27. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.25199/2408-9613-2021-8-2-6-27
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