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6 unusual facts about Anesthesia


Asia-Pacific International University

Study programs were expanded in 1955 with the addition of a course in Midwifery followed later by programs in Medical Technology, X-ray Technology and Anesthesia.

Dard Divorce

Although under the effects of a local anaesthesia, she head-butts Daniel and is able to plunge a hypodermic into his eye before killing him with a knife.

Dyclonine

Dyclonine is an oral anaesthetic that is the active ingredient of Sucrets, an over the counter throat lozenge.

Lateral Patient Air Transfer

When the patient is on the air-transfer system hospital staff can fill the ramp with air to lift the patient’s upper body and clear their airway, which makes intubation easier on hospital staff during anesthetization.

Mindray Medical International Limited

The Patient Monitoring & Life Support division develops and manufactures multi-parameter patient monitors, biotelemetry systems, Anesthesia Delivery Systems, Defibrillators, ECG machines, pulse oxymeters, hospital beds, and mounting systems for customers worldwide.

Suspended animation

The pigs were anaesthetized and major blood loss was induced, along with simulated - via scalpel - severe injuries (e.g. a punctured aorta as might happen in a car accident or shooting).


Anesthesia provision in the United States

It has been established that, under US law, anesthesia is both the practice of medicine and nursing.

Biox

The company also began to experience competition in the anesthesia market from a new entry into the field, Nellcor.

Carolinas Medical Centers

The Surgery Center will relocate from the Surgery Center to the 3rd floor of the Clinical Services Building, the front desk will relocate to the old ICU front desk, Pre-Op will be in the old Intensive Care Unit, the Operating room and the PACU(Post Anesthesia Care Unit) will vacate the old Jeff Gordon Children's Hospital wing, Postoperative Care I & II will relocate from the 2nd floor of the Surgery Center to the 4th floor of the Clinical Services Building(Rooms 4301-4378).

Carolyn McElfatrick

McElfatrick graduated from Methodist-Kahler School of Nursing in Rochester, Minnesota, and also attended graduate school for nurse anesthesia at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester.

Crawford Long

On October 16, 1846, unaware of Long's prior work with ether during surgery, William T. G. Morton administered ether anesthesia before a medical audience at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts.

David L. Reich

His areas of research interest in anesthesiology include informatics, cardiac anesthesia, hemodynamic monitoring, deep hypothermic circulatory arrest and practice management.

Donald Shiley

Shiley Labs developed and manufactured other products, especially tracheal and endotracheal tubes for respiration after surgery in the mouth or throat, and during anesthesia.

Edward Llewellyn-Thomas

He also pursued his clinical interests and held appointments in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at Women's College Hospital and in the department of anesthesia at the Toronto General Hospital.

European Society for Computing and Technology in Anesthesia and Intensive Care

The society was established in 1989 and has ever since corroborated communication between clinical (Anesthesia & Intensive Care Medicine) & technical disciplines (Computer Science & Engineering).

Granisetron

Its efficacy has also been questioned with a research Dr. Yoshitaka Fujii having 12 published papers on this topic in Canadian Journal of Anesthesia retracted.

Guedel's classification

The introduction of neuromuscular blocking agents (such as succinylcholine and tubocurarine) changed the concept of general anesthesia as it could produce temporary paralysis (a desired feature for surgery) without deep anesthesia.

Hartstein

Gary Hartstein (born 1955), American professor of Anesthesia and Emergency Medicine

Milan Vuitch

The story, by Mark Feldstein, noted a patient who said that Vuitch had operated on her without anesthesia.

National Dental Board of Anesthesiology

Based in Chicago, NDBA is the world's largest national dental board devoted to sedation and anesthesia.

Shifa College of Medicine

The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Pakistan has given approval for training in the specialties of Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Obstetrics/Gynecology, Pediatrics, Anesthesia, Cardiology, Urology and Radiology, leading to FCPS qualification.

Shouldice Hernia Centre

Local anesthesia is used in most surgeries, instead of general anesthesia, as the latter is unnecessary in most types of hernia surgeries, and the former is both safer and less expensive.

Tourniquet

August Bier used two tourniquets for administering segmental anesthesia in 1908.

Zapol Glacier

It was named by US-ACAN (2006) after Dr. Warren M. Zapol, Department of Anesthesia, Massachusetts General Hospital, whose long-term research near McMurdo Station on diving physiology of Weddell seals (begun mid-1970s) was part of a larger effort to understand how gas is handled in mammals as part of a search to understand SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome).


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