A History of Anesthesia in South America
Date Country City Anesthesia Surgery Anesthetist 11 Mar 1847 Cuba La Habana Ether Hydrocele V de Castro 29 Mar 1847 Mexico Velacruz Ether Wound repair E Barton 29 Apr 1847…
The History of Anesthesia in Japan
Fig. 31.1 Seishu Hanaoka. (Open source) In 1850, Seikei Sugita (1817–1859) translated the Dutch version of J. Schlesinger’s monograph on ether anesthesia (in German) into Japanese. He also coined the…
A History of Inhaled Anesthetics
Fig. 46.1 Edmund Andrews. (Photograph of portrait, Feinberg School of Medicine Library, courtesy of the EIE collection) The First Half of the Twentieth Century The first half of the twentieth…
The Development of Local Anesthetics
Fig. 51.1 Carl Koller (1857–1944) is recognized as the discoverer of the usefulness of cocaine for local anesthesia. (Courtesy of the National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD) While Koller is…
Major Anesthetic Themes in the 1950s
Fig. 8.1 Countries with more anesthetists than the median in 2006, of 160 members, formed societies roughly one-and-a-half to three decades sooner than those having less than the median. (Data…
Major Anesthesia-Related Events in the 2000s and Beyond
Fig. 13.1 Six to thirteen new anesthesia related drugs were introduced in each decade between 1940 and 2000. But from 2000 to 2013 only a single medication, sugammadex was introduced…
The History of Anesthesia in Mexico, the Caribbean Islands, and Central America
Fig. 26.1 Pedro Van der Linden (standing), Surgeon in Chief to the Mexican Army, after performing his first amputation in a patient anesthetized with ether. Two soldiers hold the wounded…
Major Anesthetic Themes in the 1970s
Fig. 10.1 The cumulative number of anesthetic societies in the world continued to grow’by 18’in the 1970s. Most arose in developing countries Anesthesia also attracted women into the specialty. The…
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…
