Pediatric Anesthesia
General Dental Ophthalmologic Orthopedic Plastic Urologic Number (Percent) 35 (8.9%) 43 (10.9%) 24 (6.1%) 118 (30.0%) 133 (33.8%) 40 (10.2%) Amazingly, 98% of Snow’s patients survived. Of the five…
A History of Pain Relief During Childbirth
Fig. 62.1 a Scottish obstetrician James Young Simpson was the first to use inhalation anesthesia (ether) for labor pain relief. Shortly thereafter he discovered the anesthetizing capacity of chloroform and…
A History of Neuromuscular Block and Its Antagonism
Relaxants Reversal Drugs Alcuronium Diadonium PANCURONIUM NEOSTIGMINE Amidonium Dipyrandium Pipecuronium Edrophonium Anatruxonium Duador Quilidium Pyridostigmine ATRACURIUM Fazadinium Rapacuronium Galanthamine Benzoquinonium Laudexium ROCURONIUM 4-aminopyridine C-Toxiferin Maluetin Stercuronium 3:4-diaminopyridine CISATRACURIUM Metocurine SUCCINYLCHOLINE…
The Development of Techniques for Airway Management
Fig. 54.1 Trendelenburg apparatus. (Courtesy of American Society of Anesthesiologists, ASA Newsletter Vol 72, Sep 2008, p. 9) In 1909, Chevalier Jackson advanced the performance of tracheostomy by describing what…
The Story of Artificial Ventilation
Fig. 56.1 Royal Humane Society box containing bellows and oral and nasal tubes’late 18th century. (Courtesy of Nuffield Department of Anaesthetics, Oxford, UK) Manual Methods of Artificial Ventilation From the…
The Role of the International Anesthesia Research Society in the History of Anesthesia
Fig. 20.1 Francis McMechan. (Courtesy of the Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology, Park Ridge, IL.) The McMechans McMechan’s grandfather and father were physicians. While in college, McMechan (1879–1939) won gold medals…
The History of Anaesthesia in Australia and New Zealand
Fig. 24.1 Diagram from the 9 January 1847, issue of The Illustrated London News, showing the apparatus used for several anaesthetics in London during December, 1846. Both Belisario and Pugh…
From Copenhagen to Critical Care
Fig. 57.1 Patient with respiratory paralysis in the 1952 polio epidemic being manually ventilated with a Waters CO2 absorption system Logistics now became the problem. First, supplies of cuffed tracheostomy…
Anesthesia Machines and Breathing Systems: An Evolutionary Success Story
Fig. 52.1 This replica of Morton’s Inhaler shows the reservoir (globe) that contained the ether. The mouthpiece is to the left. A sponge was often placed in the globe, increasing…
The Development of Anaesthesiology in German-Speaking Countries
Fig. 29.1 Carl-Ludwig Schleich, father of infiltration anaesthesia, insisted that local anaesthesia could decrease or eliminate the need for general anaesthesia. He advocated training in anaesthesia. (The picture, taken around…
