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- Title
Dame Agnes Hunt: pioneer of orthopaedic nursing.
- Authors
Ellis, Harold
- Abstract
As a young surgeon in the early 1950s, I trained in various orthopaedic units. Much of the work was concerned with children and young adults suffering from two devastating diseases: tuberculosis and poliomyelitis. These were to vanish almost entirely from our hospitals soon afterwards, thanks to Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG), antibiotics and the polio vaccines. However, the dedicated nursing that long term orthopaedic patients of today still require--those with congenital deformities, spinal injuries, multiple traumas and so on--owes much to the teaching of Agnes Hunt, pioneer of orthopaedic care.
- Publication
Journal of perioperative practice, 2008, Vol 18, Issue 11, p510
- ISSN
1750-4589
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1177/175045890801801107