NURSING ANM AND GNM

Detailed explanation-1: -Ignaz Semmelweis (Figure 1) was the first physician in medical history who demonstrated that puerperal fever (also known as “childbed fever”) was contagious and that its incidence could be drastically reduced by enforcing appropriate hand washing by medical care-givers (3).

Detailed explanation-2: -That said, it was Dr. Semmelweis who ordered his medical students and junior physicians to wash their hands in a chlorinated lime solution until the smell of the putrid bodies they dissected in the autopsy suite was no longer detectable.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-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.