Ignaz Semmelweis Essays

Ignaz Semmelweis (1818-1865) was a Hungarian physician who is credited with the introduction of medical practices designed to reduce sepsis rates. (1). Semmelweis was hired into an obstetric clinic in Vienna and shortly after his hire, he began noticing that many mothers were dying of what they called childbed fever, otherwise known as puerperal fever. He made observations and tested various hypotheses before finally discovering the cause of the disease. Semmelweis attempted to implement practices

Ignaz Semmelweis is known as the pioneer of antiseptic procedures being the first to introduce the role of hand hygiene in preventing person to person cross contamination. Semmelweis reduced mortality in the maternity ward to about 1% in 1861. Hospital acquired infections occur in 10% of US hospital patients and not only weighs on the mortality rate but also causes extra expenditure that can be quite substantial. While some nosocomial infections are harder to avoid, 10%-15% of these infections is

If someone searches human experimentation online it will tell you that human experimentation can be broadly defined as anything done to an individual to learn how it will affect him or her afterwards. Experimentation on a human being is the experimentation of humans to help find cures and to help fight off things like illnesses or diseases. It can also help provide us with the medicine and knowledge of what medication should be used to treat the injury or illness medication treats things. Like headaches

Semmelweis’ story is a good example of what Hempel envisioned. Ignaz Semmelweis, a Hungarian doctor in Vienna, was perplexed with the childbed fever and the cause of it (Davis,”The Doctor Who Championed Hand-Washing"). The fever affected woman who had just given birth and most of them died within 24 hours of contracting the fever. Using one of the doctor’s examples, Semmelweis hypothesized that women were getting sick because of the trauma

Judeah Auguste University of Alaska Anchorage The Doctors Plague, Sherwin B. Nuland Kraft The Doctors Plague depicts the story of the lifeline of Ignac Semmelweis, a physician in the First Division at the Allgemeine Krankenhaus hospital in Vienna and his discovery of childbed fever. Nuland opens the medical-scientific novel with a fictional story of a young nameless girl who is inching closer to her birth date. From her friend, she learns there are two obstetric divisions, one run by doctors

objective was to educate the people in local communities that have lesser or no form of educational background on the dos and don’ts of health. I have come to realize that public health is the backbone of the health field. Without John Snow, or Ignaz Semmelweis, we wouldn’t have known the cause/spread of cholera and the reason for high maternal mortality. I, want to help the community, by preventing the spread of diseases. Public health has shown me that it is possible to prevent before using curative

Thousands of patients need medical help and care at inpatient and outpatient facilities each year in USA, unfortunately often they face life-danger problem- Hospital-Acquired Infections (HAI). According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, daily 1 in 25 patients has at least one infection developed from the hospitalization. So what is it hospital-acquired infection? What are the reasons of development? And the most important question- how can it be prevented? A hospital-acquired infection

Better (2007), by Atul Gawande begins with the story of Dr.Gawande as a surgeon in his final year in medical school. The first struck me because of the patient’s story. It was an elderly patient who nearly died from septic shock had it not been for a senior resident who checked on the patient twice each time making a life altering intervention to prevent the patient with pneumonia from going septic shock from resistant, fulminant pneumonia. Dr.Gawande discusses the importance of handwashing. In

the condition in American hospitals of the childbed fever, which he believed to be an infectious disease passed to pregnant women by the hands of doctors. Holmes therefor advocated hand-washing to prevent childbed fever. In the late 1840’s, Dr Ignaz Semmelweis observed the mortality rate in a maternity ward staffed by medical students was three times higher than in a second delivery room staffed

In Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior, authors Ori and Rom Brafman create multiple theories and claims that deeply elaborate on why humans act in certain manners. One of such postulations articulates the idea that people are susceptible to labeling others due to initial opinions. To support such claim, the Brafmans use a study on the effect of description: a professor is either described as “‘warm’ or cold’” and this causes students to give the professor a “high or low value” (Brafman

Creationism, the theory claiming that God created us has long been the a cause of dispute between people. Given that this is such a controversial topic, people argue that this should no longer be taught in schools but when has ignorance ever benefited us in any way? This dispute will no doubt continue until the end of time. If children are ignorant of this they will grow up surrounded by a society where they feel left out. Hence, out of fear of being excluded they will pretend to have knowledge on

The Manure Pile Theory of Disease In 1932, E. Douglas Hume published the book, Bechamp or Pasteur?, and it chronicles the work of one of Pasteur’s contemporaries, Antoine Bechamp, from the University at Lille, the most respected researcher and teacher in France at the time. Bechamp was an intent research scientist, so he wasn’t into the politics of medicine nor fanfare, and he was a university professor and serious researcher until his death at the age of 93. Bechamp believed that the swamp gave

part of healthcare practice since the early 1840s. During 1840s in Europe, the term "childbed fever" came into use to describe a condition experienced by 25% of women who gave birth to babies (19). To combat the spread of this condition, Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis educated people on the need for washing their hands with a chlorinated solution before examining women in labour (20). As a result of this hand-hygiene education, the mortality rate dropped to less than 1%, saving many people 's lives (20). Asking

It is necessary to eliminate the possibility of contamination of the starting materials and/or products of other materials and products. Increased risk of accidental cross-contamination contributes to the uncontrolled spread of dust, gases, vapours, aerosols or micro-organisms present in the materials and products, equipment, and clothing (Coyle, et.al, 2004, 179-186). The degree of risk depends on the type of contamination and product exposed to contamination. The most dangerous pollutants are sensitizing

of disease was established only two centuries ago. This can be deemed as relatively early with respect to the discoveries of Pasteur and Lister that occurred decades later. In mid 1800’s Ignaz Semmelweis hypothesized that there was a relation of poor hand hygiene and transmission of nosocomial infections. Semmelweis is considered the father of hand hygiene. He recommended that hands should be scrubbed in a chlorinated lime solution before every patient contact and proposed the first evidence that cleaning

We review the most important clinical factors an obstetrician gynecologist should consider when encountering a critically ill patient with a life-threatening infection. Most obstetrician gynecologists are reluctant to perform aggressive surgery, particularly a hysterectomy, in young nulliparous patients; however, these surgical interventions can be necessary to save patient lives. This article specifically focuses on clostridial species, Staphylococcus aureus and Group A streptococcal bacteria,