How Surgical Instruments And Surgery Has Changed Throughout History

Surgery started when the first people were alive, having accidents, not eating right and our bodies not working properly We are evolving in our knowledge, striving for a better future, and hoping that repairs to our bodies are not painful and that we heal fast. So people throughout the centuries have and have not learnt from past methods, other practices have been forgotten. Wise people, medicine men and women, witch doctors, doctors have created new things over time that can help us help each other through tough times in life. We as humans, haven't even scratched the surface of the ways and possibilities we can teach and learn about it. This is one of my main reasons why I chose this subject.

Humans are evolving so fast it is amazing. We might be using the same equipment but we are making it healthy and good for our body by using silver in the sharp parts of objects. By using silver the body will heal faster because it is a natural object and has something else in its healing properties in this object. The good ways we can use our knowledge is to help the innocent people. If you can’t do that I don’t know why you will not help them. One other thing to do is just help. The bad ways you can use it is testing without permission to operate on the subject. Or use it for pain. Never do bad things to people.

How Egyptians did surgery

Back in ancient Egypt they did surgery quite often. Back then they did have doctors for one example (Hesy-Ra) he was a Chief of Dentists and Physicians, to King Djoser, who ruled in the 27th century BC. Herbs played a major part in Egyptian medicine. Ancient Egyptian doctors used a combination of natural remedies, combined with prayer. Unlike prehistoric peoples, ancient Egyptians were able to document their research and knowledge, they were could read and write; they also had a system of mathematics which helped scientists make calculations. But back then it was very risky to go to a doctor to get fixed up because it was very experimental back then meaning that your life is still in danger.

As long as the problem was on the surface of the skin, Egyptian surgery could deal with it quite effectively. Egyptian doctors were excellent at bandaging. We know that they bound willow leaves into the bandages of patients with inflamed wounds (Willow has antiseptic properties). They could also stitch wounds!!!The ancient Egyptian word for doctor is "swnw". This title has a long history. The Egyptians invented and used many simple machines, such as the ramp and the lever and to aid construction processes. They used rope trusses to stiffen the beam of ships back then.

Ancient Greece tools

Scalpels - Scalpels were a common tool in ancient Greece and is still a common surgical tool to this day. Ancient Scalpels were made in the same basic shape as the modern scalpels. The longer scalpels were used to make deeper and longer cuts while, the shorter scalpels were used to make delicate incisions for areas around the ribs for example.

Hooks - Ancient Greek hooks came in two different types; sharp and blunt. Both of these types are still used today for the same purpose as back then. Blunt hooks were used for raising blood vessels and sharp hooks were used to lift up pieces of soft tissues. These procedures are still common to this day.

Uvula Crushing Forceps - These forceps were used to amputate the uvula from the body. The uvula is a soft fleshy tissue that hangs on top of the soft palate in your throat. The forces help to prevent hemorrhaging. These forceps are used sometimes today.

Bone Drills - Bone drills were used a lot in Ancient Greece and are still used a lot today. They were and still are used today to remove dead bone tissue from the skull and UFOs (unidentified foreign objects) in the bone.

Bone Forceps - These forceps were used to extract small pieces of bone fragments from the bone. These forceps are often used with bone drills in modern day medicine.

Catheters and Bladder sounds - Also a popular tool today, catheters were used to open blocked urinary tracts so that urine could run through the body. Early catheters were hollow, while, modern catheters are solid.

Vaginal Speculum - The speculum was one of the most complex medical tools in ancient Greece. Greek doctors had to know about engineering to work with a speculum because of the many moving parts. The speculum is one of the most widely used tools in the modern world and many women have used a speculum at least once in their lives.

Robot surgeon nowadays

A Quiet robotic revolution is occurring within the health sector, and experts predict that we will see a substantial rise in robotic systems in hospitals across the UK within the next five to 10 years. It's a scary thought, but increasingly necessary at a time when there is an ageing and growing population, as well as extensive medical staff shortages.

Robotic surgery or computer-assisted surgery involves partial interference or complete dependence on specially devised machines to carry out surgical procedures. According to Allied Market Research, the surgical robotics market is expected to double from $3bn in 2014 to $6bn by 2020.

3D printing in medicine

As soon as 3D printing began to take off people were quick to see the opportunity for creating amateur prosthetics for their pets from puppies to geese, and even tortoises. Unlike for humans, there was no mass-supply chain of prosthetics for pets. But mass-supplied prosthetics are likely to be a thing of the past as 3D printing is increasingly used to manufacture prosthetics that are exactly tailored to a patient’s needs. “For example, with hip replacements, surgeons have to cut and trim a patient’s bone to fit the prosthetic, but in the future it will be normal to 3D print a prosthetic to fit a patient, ” says…. Just as 3D printing is allowing customised production of medicines and devices, the production itself is likely to become localised. The warehouses that are full of packaged medicines and prosthetics will in the future likely be replaced by digital files of designs that hospitals and pharmacies will be able to download and print on demand using stored raw materials, says Mr Chuen. Such distributed manufacturing he says could make medicines and devices more equitably available across the world so long as a local hospital for instance has the printing technology in place and access to raw materials.

However Mr Chuen warns distributed production will present new risks for ensuring the quality control of end products. It will need a fundamental shift in responsibility from the supplier to wherever the medicines or devices are manufactured. “That represents a huge shift and we have to work out how it could work. But if we get the regulation right then it will transform access to medical products. ” But for Mr Chuen, the immediate overall challenge in medical 3D printing is ensuring that medical professionals themselves are up to speed with the technology because it is their clinical experience that will be needed to drive its successful application.

Conclusion

In my opinion is that we have evolved over time and amazing still going to fast through the future. The really cool thing is that back then they had amazingly had very experimental stuff the things that were back then we so scary that it would give you nightmares. The instrument back then were still experimental because there was not much knowledge back then to help evolve medical instruments. Some of the instruments back then we still use for example the scalpel, medical tweezers, leach/animal these are some of the thing that have evolved abit.

The thing back then are so different from where we are now we tend to use technology to do our work or help us do our work better and show us things we did not see before. Today we are still advancing so fast that we are starting to rush things are being created and developed new moves to save lives list is getting longer the ways we transport are changing to help save more. We in all of our lives still keep need to learn new things and keep up to date with each other like the evolution of phones from envelopes to instant messages.