Features of Amputation Surgery Among Civilians During the Period 1930-1960

LINDHOLMBetter anesthesia, control of shock, management of sepsis, and new methods in pre-and postoperative care in combination with improved prosthetic devices and rehabilitation programs have brought about changes in amputation surgery since 1939.Medical and social development have had a great influe.nceupon the morbidity, mortality and age of the population.Technology is responsible for a steadily increasing risk of injury from accident.These trends must be presumed to have affected the more or less accepted principles and main features of amputation surgery for disease and civilian injury.One change in the professional attitude is in fact the generally adopted replacement of zur Verfh's (1923) even lately approved 'sites-of-election' by the more limb saving levels of amputation of today.