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)…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Edmond I Eger II, Lawrence J. Saidman and Rod N. Westhorpe (eds.)The Wondrous Story of Anesthesia10.1007/978-1-4614-8441-7_25 © Edmond I Eger, MD 2014 25. History of Canadian Anesthesia Douglas Craig1 , Diane Biehl1, Robert Byrick2 and John G Wade3 (1) Departments of…
Edmond I Eger II, Lawrence J. Saidman and Rod N. Westhorpe (eds.)The Wondrous Story of Anesthesia10.1007/978-1-4614-8441-7_18 © Edmond I Eger, MD 2014 18. A History of Drug Addiction in Anesthesia Christopher D. Kent1 and Karen B. Domino1 (1)…
