A History of Neuroanesthesia
Fig. 64.1 A trephined skull from 3,500 BC demonstrates a rounded edge of the hole, indicating that healing had taken place and that the patient had survived the procedure. (From…
The Evolution of Anaesthesia in the British Isles
Fig. 30.1 Sir Ivan “Paddy” Magill (1888–1986) holding an equine version of his tracheal tube Magill contributed to academic anaesthesia and the recognition of anaesthesia as a specialty through the…
History of Respiratory Gas Monitoring in Anesthesia
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
