NURSING ANM AND GNM

Detailed explanation-1: -He proposed the practice of washing hands with chlorinated lime solutions in 1847 while working in Vienna General Hospital’s First Obstetrical Clinic, where doctors’ wards had three times the mortality of midwives’ wards. He published a book of his findings in Etiology, Concept and Prophylaxis of Childbed Fever.

Detailed explanation-2: -Dr Semmelweis initiated a mandatory hand washing policy for medical students and physicians. In a controlled trial using a chloride of lime solution, 6 the mortality rate fell to about 2%-down to the same level as the midwives. Later he started washing the medical instruments and the rate decreased to about 1%.

Detailed explanation-3: -Ignaz Semmelweis was the first doctor to discover the importance for medical professionals … of hand washing. In the 19th century, it was common for women to die from an illness contracted during or after childbirth, known as childbed fever.

Detailed explanation-4: -It was a doodle of Ignaz Semmelweis, a 19th-century Hungarian doctor who was known as the pioneer of hand-washing. He discovered the wonders of the now-basic hygienic practice as a way to stop the spread of infection in 1847, during an experiment in a Vienna hospital’s maternity ward.

Detailed explanation-5: -Semmelweis suspected a common link between these deaths. He hypothesized that certain “death particles” from body tissues of deceased, stuck to the hands of physicians and medical students during autopsies; their unclean hands carried and transferred these particles to women in labor.