A History of Nordic Anesthesia
Country Date Contribution Contributor/manufacturer Denmark 1950s Gas analysis P Astrup; O Siggaard Anderson 1955 Ruben valve; Ambu bag H Ruben Sweden 1940s Gordh-Olovsson needle T Olovsson; T Gordh 1940s Lidocaine…
A History of Regional Anesthesia
Date Development 1840s Importation of coca leaves 1855 Isolation of cocaine 1860 Purification of cocaine 1884 Koller describes the surgical use of cocaine 1884 Halsted, uses cocaine for peripheral nerve…
The Anesthesiologist and Pain: A Historical Memoir
Edmond I Eger II, Lawrence J. Saidman and Rod N. Westhorpe (eds.)The Wondrous Story of Anesthesia10.1007/978-1-4614-8441-7_60 © Edmond I Eger, MD 2014 60. The Anesthesiologist and Pain: A Historical Memoir Daniel B. Carr1 and Michael J. Cousins2 (1)…
1910–1950: Anesthesia Before, During, and After Two World Wars
Fig. 6.1 The cumulative increase in the number of books (first editions) on anesthesia accelerated after World War II. (Data from Keys’ History of Surgical Anesthesia.) The following gives a…
The Half Century Before Ether Day
Fig. 2.1 Humphry Davy, the precocious superintendent of the Pneumatic Institution in Bristol, described the capacity of nitrous oxide to prevent pain, suggesting its use in surgical procedures, but no…
A History of Intravenous Anesthesia
Fig. 47.1 This apparatus was designed by the Kny-Scheerer Co. for use with any type of IV anesthetic drug. As described in a report on Intravenous Anesthesia by two New…
Where and How Does the Anesthetic Process Help or Hurt Patients Independent of Producing Anesthesia?
Fig. 42.1 Daniel Sessler. (Fromwww.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/magazine/issues/summer07/articles/…) 1970s–1980s: Transcutaneous Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide Measurement The blood gas monitoring systems devised in the 1950s, could not be used to continuously monitor respiratory gases…
A Brief History of the Patient Safety Movement in Anaesthesia
Uncalibrated chloroform dilution reservoir bag leading to overdose Phosgene poisoning from chloroform decomposition with open gas lights Misconnection of tubes leading to inhalation of liquid chloroform Chloroform inhalers which when…
Significant Developments in the 1990s
Fig. 12.1 Sixteen new anesthesia societies appeared in the 1900s, several from the new countries that arose from the ashes of the Soviet Union Better Neuromuscular Blocking Drugs? Yes and…
Major Anesthetic Themes in the 1980s
Fig. 11.1 Anesthetic societies continued to accumulate, a dozen in the 1980s In South America, in 1987, the societies in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay formed the Federation of South…
