Phineas Gage and Sergeant Dan Powers both had head injuries involving the piercing of the skull but received different treatments from the other. Dan Powers underwent a more advanced version of Phineas Gage’s medical treatment. On the other hand, Phineas Gages survival was based more on luck than science. Phineas Gage, the man who had a metal rod through his brain, received less advanced treatment for his injury. According to “Phineas gage” paragraph 16, “He cleans the skin around the hole. extracts the small fragments of bone, and gently presses the large pieces of skull back into place. He looks inside Phinneas's mouth.” “Then Dr. Harlow dresses the wound, pulling the loose skin back in position and taping it in place.” This shows what treatment Gage received and how his doctor did it. Dan Powers, on the other hand, is a different story. …show more content…
“Soldier Surveills Knife in Head,” Paragraph 8 states, “Powers fellow soldiers jumped into action. They loaded him into a Humvee and sped off to their home base. There, medics carefully wrapped his wound, covering the knife with a Styrofoam cup.” This is just the beginning of the medical attention he was given. Paragraphs 19-25 claims “Teff pulled the knife out”. Powers began bleeding profusely. Everybody in the room thought I wasn’t going to make it, Powers said. Thousands of miles away in Washington, Dc, Lt, Col, Dr. Rocco Armonda was pulled over on the side of the hallway... his advice to the team in Iraq: Close up the Sergeant and get him to the National Naval Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland immediately... Once at Bethesda, Powers was rushed into surgery. The neurosurgical team coiled the cardioid artery and performed cranioplasty on Power’s skull.” This proves that Power received a more advanced surgery than Gage. But was their survival based more on luck than
Head-Smashed-In buffalo jump (DkPj-1) is a cliff located at where the foothills of the Rocky Mountains meet the Great Plains, and northwest of Fort Macleod, Alberta. The jump is the one of the oldest and best preserved buffalo jumps in the world. Head-Smashed-In buffalo jump has been a well-known archaeological site and a UNESCO heritage site where native people in Alberta used for hunting bison for approximately 6,000 years.
Resection was a process that “involved cutting open the limb, sawing out the damaged bone, and then closing the incision” (Jones, 1). Resection allows the patient to keep his limbs but it requires a great ordeal of time and skill. This also contributed to the common practice of amputation during the war. But there were cases where surgeons did use this method. Terry J. Jones said in his NY Times article, “resections were used more frequently after surgeons learned that amputations had a much higher mortality rate” (Jones, 1). In another article by Corydon Ireland, it describes Mitchell Adam’s, a Harvard lecturer, grandfather who served as a volunteer surgeon during the Civil War. In the article, “Adams was not a champion of hasty amputations, but argued for excision and other limb-saving measures. And he describes the everyday pressures of a country practice in Framingham, Mass” (Ireland, 1). This meant that not all surgeons at the time only wanted to amputate but strived for alternate methods. This new knowledge shows that some surgeons were more dedicated to thinking about the well-being of their patients than others and this opens up to other possibilities that may have occurred during the war. This allows an image to come to mind of a surgeon diligently operating on a soldier with care and compassion. However, even though there may be many possibilities, we can’t truly know every event that occurs during a
First, he stayed conscious during his entire accident, which was diagnosed as an open brain injury; in other words, he was alive to feel the pain of the iron rod shooting through his head. Page six of Phineas Gage proves this is shocking by stating “Amazingly, Phineas is still alive… a minute later he speaks.” Second, as the iron rod damaged his brain (causing social problems), the iron rod damaged his skull and face. Gage had huge gashes, a cracked skull, a major loss of blood, and many more injuries revolving his head. On page nine of Phineas Gage, Gage’s immediate physical adversities are described: “He cleans the skin around the hole, extracts the small fragments of bone, and gently presses the larger pieces of skull back in place… he pulls the loose skin back into position…” As anyone can notice, Gage’s physical adversities were very, very harsh, and won’t compare to the adversities faced by Lacks and
Mr. Felder enrolled in Tuskegee Institute in 1941 and continued his education until 1943 when he enlisted in the U.S. army and became a member of the famed 92nd Infantry Division, a part of the old historic “Buffalo Soldiers Regiment.” From 1943 to 1946, his infantry unit encountered much combat on the front lines in Italy during World War II. He was wounded in combat and returned from the war with a Purple Heart, a Bronze Star, and a shrapnel-fragments of a bomb, shell, or other object thrown out by an explosion-still lodged in his body.
In November of 1951, Jim noticed an infection on his lower lip. He went to a hospital in Philadelphia and had it checked out, and found out that it was cancer. Luckily, the doctor’s were able to remove it, without any aftereffects. Ten months later however, he suffered his second heart attack, but he shocked the doctors when after only seventy-two hours, he sat up and walked out of the hospital under his own power. Jim however was unable to conquer his third heart attack which occurred on March 28, 1953. This heart attack was massive and it occurred while Jim was laying in bed. Not even the doctors could save him. The unconquerable athlete had been conquered for the first time, and all that was left of him was the legend that he had striven so hard to achieve. On the front of Jim’s granite memorial is engraved:
In 1865 before an operation, he cleansed a leg wound first with carbolic acid, and performed the surgery with sterilized (by heat) instruments. The wound healed, and the patient survived. Prior to surgery, the patient would need an amputation. However, by incorporating these antiseptic procedures in all of his surgeries, he decreased postoperative deaths. The use of antiseptics eventually helped reduce bacterial infection not only in surgery but also in childbirth and in the treatment of battle wounds.
The day of Phineas accident, he was performing his work duties on the construction of a railroad track. His duty was to set explosive charges in holes drilled into large pieces of rock so that they could be broken up and removed. He had to fill the holes with gunpowder, with a fuse, and then pack in sand with a large tamping iron. Because gage was distracted on September 13, 1948, he forgot to fill in one of the holes with sand. In result, when he went to pack down the sand, the tampering iron sparked against the rock and exploded the gunpowder. This situation caused the three-foot iron to blow through Gage's head right below his left cheekbone. Gage only suffered from minor blood loss and his left pupil reacted to direct light for ten days after the accident. Luckily, Phineas Gage survived this dramatic incident and after his recovery he went back to work.
In 1980, a man with a steak knife in his back, against his spine went to a St. Louis hospital and was refused treatment. He was transferred to
Gage even suggested that he didn't wish to see his friends, since he would be back to work in "a day or two" anyways” (Cherry 2016). This would prove to be far from the truth in the coming months, Gage was not able to rejoin his crew at the railroad company due to his dynamic change in personality. Cherry writes, “Post-accident, these reports describe him as a changed man, suggesting that the injury had transformed him into a surly, aggressive drunkard who was unable to hold down a job” (Cherry 2016). Truly amazed at his ability to even live a some-what normal life was past expectations, although Phineas had trouble with his personality and other area, he did remarkably well in life. This help strength the argument for localization and took research to greater level for decades to
One of the leading surgeons of the time was also the first surgeon to use antiseptics in surgery. Joseph Lister believed that infections were a result of bacteria. He used various methods to fight the bacteria, constantly changing his methods over the years. He even went so far as to use vaporizing sprays in the surgery areas (Connor). His original method, developed in March of 1847, to keep a wound sterilized was to “[use] [carbolic acid] to clean a wound, and then [apply] a piece of lint, soaked in the acid, as a dressing, covered by a slightly larger piece of thin tin or sheet lead in order to prevent evaporation of the acid.
A. Background In recent years, there has been an increase in research investigating the long-term effects of repeated head trauma on the brain, especially in athletes. Following his discovery of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), Dr. Bennet Omalu inspired a movement of research aimed at establishing better safety standards and protocols in football. It was not until 2002 that the initial connection between repetitive head trauma, such as concussions, and brain injury was suspected (Ott, 2015). As common as concussions were during the late 1970s and 1980s, they were often swept under the rug, as they were seen as insignificant injuries.
He also started using chemical remedies made from mercury, iron, copper, sulfate and sulfur. Then comes the Renaissance, and the ban on dissecting bodies is lifted causing discoveries to bloom. Ambroise Paré, also known as the Father of Modern Medicine, revolutionized the treatment of the gunshot wounds. Instead of cauterizing, burning the skin, he placed ointment (so the wound can heal on its own) or tied off the
...ways to clean and heal wounds. He realized the importance of cleaning the wounds. He also designed prosthetic limbs and the truss, which is designed to keep hernias from growing ( “Medicine”).
The field of physical therapy has been largely influenced by social civil occurrences. A large impact on this field is credited to the various wars throughout the United States history, allowing for the advancement maturation of this young field. Wartime conflicts placed a demand for healing of injured soldiers, the field of physical therapy providing the supply. This field has adapted throughout the years, a resiliency that has earned respect in the health care realm (Echternach, J. L. (2003). Foundational interventions of physical therapy such as therapeutic exercise, mobility training, range of motion, and more owe their roots to physical therapy in the military. The proven success of these therapies emerged during periods of war, and carried
Our approach in managing wounds was far from being optimal in our own setting. After having read the article of Sibbald et al (1) and assisting to presentations during the first residential week-end, our approach at St. Mary 's Hospital Center 's Family Medicine Clinic must change. We were not classifying wounds as healable, maintenance or non-healable. We were always considering the wounds in our practice as healable despite considering the system 's restraints or the patients ' preferences. In the following lines, I will define and summarize the methods one should use in order to initial management of wounds and how to integrate it better to our site. The first goal we need to set is to determine its ability to heal. In order to ascertain if a wound is healable, maintenance or a non-healable wound.