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Healthcare heroes
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A british chemist and an X-Ray crystallographer. Her contribution to healthcare included molecular structures of DNA, RNA, viruses, coal, and graphite. | Rosalind Franklin |
| They discovered the purification of insulin for diabetes treatment; it earned them a Nobel Prize in 1923 | Frederick Banting Charles Best |
| An American nurse who founded the American Red Cross. She didn't attend nursing school but provided self-taught nursing classes | Clara Barton |
| He was a writer, scientist, inventor, diplomat,and statesman. His contribution to healthcare was the invention of the bifocals and flexible catheter. | Benjamin Franklin |
| He was a Scottish physician and microbiologist. He discovered the world's first antibiotic substance, called Penicillin. | Alexander Fleming |
| A French chemist and microbiologist. He was known for the discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation, and pasteurization. | Louis Pasteur |
| An anatomist, physician, and author who accurately recorded and illustrated the human anatomy through his works of autopsies and dissections. | Andreas Vesalius |
| An English physician who made his contributions in anatomy and physiology by being the first to discover the circulation of blood flow in the human body. | William Harvey |
| A Greek physician that introduced medical terminology to the field of medicine which is widely used today. (Symptom, diagnosis, therapy, trauma, sepsis.) | Hippocrates |
| A British physician and scientist who worked emphasized on the concept of vaccines, SmallPox, which became the first vaccine. | Edward Jenner |
| An English social reformer and statistician. She founded modern nursing and is known as the "Lady with the Lamp". | Florence Nightingale |
| He was a French physician and musician, he invented the stethoscope while making his flute. His invention led to the discovery of analyzing chest conditions. | Rene Laennec |
| A Dutch businessman and scientist. He is known as the "Father of microbiology" and is known as one of the first microscopist and microbiologists. He invented the microscope. | Anton van Leeuwenhoek |
| He was a scottish physician who pioneered naval hygiene in the royal Navy. He conducted the first ever clinical trial that determined that citrus fruits cured scurvy. | James Lind |
| He was a pioneer of infection control by reducing wound infection and introduced antiseptic surgery to humans with carbolic acid. He also was the first to apply pasteur's principles to humans | Joseph Lister |
| A german engineer who invented the first x-ray; this revolutionized physics and medicine and earned him a nobel peace prize in physics. | Wilhelm Roentgen |
| An american dental surgeon who gave the first successful public demonstration of inhaled anesthesia (ether) in surgery. | William Morton |
| They were the creators of the polio vaccine; 1 made it with a dead virus while 2 made it with a weakened virus. | 1 - Jonas Salk/2 - Alfred Sabin |
| He was a south african cardiac surgeon who performed the first human-to-human heart transplant. He was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize but did not win. | Christiaan Barnard |
| A director of pediatric neurosurgery who successfully performed a hemispherectomy, removing half of a kid's diseased brain. The kid is now living happily and is healthy. | Ben Carson |
| She was the first woman to receive an MD degree from a medical school in the US. She opened her own medical college for women. | Elizabeth Blackwell |
| An english obstetrician who performed the first human blood transfusion after his patient hemorrhaged during childbirth; he used her husband's blood. | James Blundell |
| What were treatments based on in Ancient Greece? | Philosophy |
| During which time period was the "science of human anatomy born" | Renaissance |
| First book on human anatomy was published in what year? | 1538 |
| What is the size of the human heart? | Fist |
| How many times does your heartbeat in a day? | 100k |
| Which century did William Harvey discover that blood circulated? | 17th |
| In the US, one blood transfusion occurs once every ---- seconds | 3 |
| What were the first two chemicals used for anesthesia? | Nitrous Oxide (laughing gas) Ether |
| What year did the first anesthetized surgery occur? | 1846 |
| What does the "x" in "x-ray" stand for? | x = unknown |
| What was the difference between the two wards of the Vienna General Hospital and the occurrence of child bed fever? | In the ward with the physicians, 7% of mothers die. In the ward with the midwives, only 2% difference. The physicians would not wash their hands before moving to the next patient |
| What infectious diseases did Louie Pasteur's children die of? | typhoid fever |
| What industry did Pasteur first work in to eradicate germs? | Beer and Wine |
| Who proposed the Germ Theory? | Louis Pasteur |
| What is the ONE central idea in the Germ Theory? | One microorganism causes one disease in everybody. |
| Why were farmers not affected by smallpox? | They had already been infected by cowpox, a milder smallpox |
| Describe the first vaccination ever administered to a human. | He withdrew pus from cowpox sores and inoculated a healthy 8 year old. He proved it worked by giving him smallpox the boy lived. |
| How was scurvy in sailors prevented? | Including citrus fruits in a sailor's diet |
| Ho was beriberi prevented? | By eating unpolished brown rice; it was caused by a deficiency in thymine (B1) |
| What caused most deaths during WWI? | infection of wounds |
| What organism is penicillin derived from? | mold |
| What drug was invented during WWII to fight dysentery? | Prontosil |
| What year as the first insulin injected into a human? | 1922 |
| T or F; It is impossible for a virus to cause cancer. | False |
| When did HIV emerge in the population? | early 1980s |
| What does AIDS Stand for? | Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome |
| What is unique about retroviruses? | Different type of virus; genetic information is converted from RNA to DNA, and the DNA from he virus joins with our DNA. |
| An antiviral medicines effective treatments? | Yes, they help treat HIV and AIDS |
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