Prior to 1961 drugs were not stringently tested before being introduced to the Australian market. The prevailing view in obstetric care was that medications that were non-toxic to the mother were non-toxic to the developing fetus. This illusion was dramatically and irreversibly shattered in 1961 when Sydney obstetrician Dr William McBride raised the alarm that babies exposed to thalidomide were being born with significant birth defects. The thalidomide tragedy would go on to have seismi...
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Prior to 1961 drugs were not stringently tested before being introduced to the Australian market. The prevailing view in obstetric care was that medications that were non-toxic to the mother were non-toxic to the developing fetus. This illusion was dramatically and irreversibly shattered in 1961 when Sydney obstetrician Dr William McBride raised the alarm that babies exposed to thalidomide were being born with significant birth defects. The thalidomide tragedy would go on to have seismi...
04 - The history of French, needle and suture gauges
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04 - The history of French, needle and suture gauges
Join me on a truly low yield romp through the history of measuring medical equipment, spanning three countries and three centuries. References: Iverson 1987 “J.-F.-B. Charriere: The Man Behind the ‘French’ Gauge’”, The Journal of Emergency Medicine Vol 5 pp. 545-548 Iverson 1987 "The origins of the gauge system for medical equipment", The Journal of Emergency Medicine Vol 5 pp. 45-48 Muffly, T et al. 2011 “The history and evolution of sutures in pelvic surgery” Journal of the Royal Society...
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Prior to 1961 drugs were not stringently tested before being introduced to the Australian market. The prevailing view in obstetric care was that medications that were non-toxic to the mother were non-toxic to the developing fetus. This illusion was dramatically and irreversibly shattered in 1961 when Sydney obstetrician Dr William McBride raised the alarm that babies exposed to thalidomide were being born with significant birth defects. The thalidomide tragedy would go on to have seismi...
