Fig. 55.1 Stuart Cullen demonstrated inhalation anesthesia in Copenhagen to Ralph Waters and several of the Danish anesthesia faculty of the World Health Organization Anesthesia training course for 3rd world…

  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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…