Intravenous history at IV conference
Intravenous conference: Dr Neil MacGillivray, Honorary Post Doctoral Fellow in Scottish History University of Edinburgh will present the inaugural Dr Thomas Latta Lecture for the Intravenous (IV) Therapy Programme at Infection Prevention 09.
While focussing on the pioneering work of Dr Thomas Latta the paper will also examine the social, political and medical upheaval which resulted from the arrival of cholera in Europe in 1831: medical men were assassinated in Russia and there were real fears of revolution in many European countries.
The response of the medical profession will be reviewed referring to the work of Dr William Brooke O’Shaughnessy and examining the general helplessness of the profession in the face of this new disease when the mainstay of treatment was bloodletting. Not only did the new disease result in the first cardiac catheterisation but also the first use of intravenous saline by Dr Thomas Latta.
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