Tuesday 22nd Jan 2013- Anaesthetic Research: Pain??

Decided to research into whether or not the procedures are painful.

Clearly with the use of anaesthetic, people are not going to be conscious or feel any pain, however before the development of anaesthetic- did people still go through with it throughout the pain??

Anaesthetic was developed and first used in public in 1846 where the patient was still conscious but felt no pain throughout the operation.

However, notable milestones in plastic surgery before this time included:

6500BCE When skulls in France were found to have holes drilled into the skull called trepana. This was where a hole was drilled directky into the skull as it was thought to have got rid of health problems. Without anaesthetic, this would have been extremely painful, however people still had it done.

 

1540CE Surgeons and barbers join together to create the United Barber-Surgeons Company who performed blood letting (which wouldn't have been too painful without the anaethetic) and tooth extractions. Tooth extractions would have been really painful without the anaestetic.

 

1818 First transfusion of human blood

1843 First hysterectomy performed in England. Without the use of anaesthetic this would have been painfl however people would have still chosen to go through with it.

Hysterectomys are a very long term procedure which would have extreme consequences. Procedures such as these will be done for different reasons than the cosmetic procedures that I have been looking at (such as boob jobs and nose jobs) and will have different outcomes. For my project I will look further into these types of procedures.

Going through the pain in order to get results would mean that most people would have thought that the results would be worth it. Also, it isn't just the pain when the procedure is happening, it is the hours days or weeks which it takes to heal. The amount of pain killers used and the amount of heko which they will need before things get back to normal. It is these things which I will need to consider when deciding on whether or not plastic surgery is worth it.

My Project?

I will need to look further into things such as hysterectomys