SHS Impact of War and Technology on surgery

Wartime developments: Which Polish scientist developed mobile X-ray machines?

• Marie Curie

• Harold Gillies

• Archibald McIndoe

• Albert Hustin

Wartime developments: Which London-based army doctor set up a special unit to transplant skin and treat men suffering from severe facial wounds?

• Marie Curie

• Archibald McIndoe

• Albert Hustin

• Harold Gillies

Wartime developments: During WW2, who used new drugs such as penicillin to prevent infection when treating pilots with horrific facial injuries?

• Harold Gillies

• Archibald McIndoe

• Marie Curie

• Albert Hustin

Wartime developments: Who first discovered blood groups in 1900?

• Marie Curie

• Dwight Harken

• Karl Landsteiner

• Harold Gillies

Wartime developments: Who discovered that sodium citrate stopped blood from clotting in 1914?

• Marie Curie

• Karl Landsteiner

• Dwight Harken

• Albert Hustin

Wartime Developments: Which year was the British National Blood Transfusion Service opened?

• 1937

• 1938

• 1939

• 1940

Wartime developments: What was developed which kept a broken leg 'in traction'?

• Army Leg Splint (Keller-Blake Splint)

• Navy Leg Splint (Waterloo-Wellington Splint)

• Air Force Leg Splint (Spitfire Splint)

• Marine Leg Splint (Covert Operation Splint)

Wartime developments: Which US army surgeon, stationed in London, cut into beating hearts and used his bare hands to remove bullets and shrapnel?

• Albert Hustin

• Harold Gillies

• Dwight Harken

• Archibald McIndoe

Wartime developments: A national immunisation programme against which bacterial infection was launched during WW2?

• meningitus

• diphtheria

• whooping cough

• polio

Wartime developments: By 1944, enough of what drug had been produced to treat all the Allied forces in Europe?

• Salversan 606

• Penicillin

• Streptomycin

• Mitomycin