NURSING ANM AND GNM

Detailed explanation-1: -Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis was a Hungarian gynecologist who is known as a pioneer of antiseptic procedures. Semmelweis discovered that the incidence of puerperal fever could be drastically cut by the use of hand disinfection in obstetrical clinics.

Detailed explanation-2: -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.

Detailed explanation-3: -Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894) and Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis (1818–1865): Preventing the Transmission of Puerperal Fever.

Detailed explanation-4: -When confronted firsthand with the terrible toll that the disease was taking on young mothers and their families, Semmelweis was determined to find the cause. To do so, he personally autopsied all the mothers who had died of childbed fever the previous day before starting his ward rounds every morning.