Recent Investigations concerning Nitrous Oxide, and the Ignition Points of some Anaesthetic Vapours

Blomfield, Joseph

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“…There was a joint meeting with the Anaesthetic Section of the RSM. 5 The next year, Cohen visited the United States and at the meeting of the International Anaesthesia Research Society he gave a paper on the value of anaesthetic journals. 6 At a formal session he was presented with a scroll`For Meritorious Services to the Specialty of Anesthesia', which lists all the then current members of the editorial board of the journal.…”

Section: The ®Rst Years: 1923±1929mentioning

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The British Journal of Anaesthesia

Norman¹

2002

British Journal of Anaesthesia

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In 1961, some 7 months after starting anaesthesia in the Leeds General Infirmary, I took out a subscription to the British Journal of Anaesthesia. It cost Pound Sterling3.15s.0d (Pound Sterling3.75) a year. The publishers John Sherratt and Son of Altringham) sent me the back numbers from the start of that year. I first had a paper published in the journal in 1965; first refereed a paper in 1969; joined the editorial board in 1975; and lasted there until 1998. The following account of the early years of the journal derives from the journal itself, and from records, letters and minutes of meetings kindly given to me by Dr Edmund Riding and Professor Andrew Hunter when they demitted offices with the journal. The history cannot be complete. Sadly, the earliest minutes books are lost. But there is much of interest covering the times when anaesthesia developed from the rag-and-bottle inhalation era to the use of intravenous anaesthetics, neuromuscular blocking agents, ventilators and monitoring. Thoracic and neurosurgical anaesthesia were revolutionized; cardiac surgery became possible; and resuscitation with intravenous fluids, blood and plasma all developed. Antibiotics improved care. Anaesthetists pioneered intensive care and latterly extended their roles in pain relief outside the operating theatre. All these developments have appeared in papers at some time in this journal. This is a personal view of the journal over its first 25 years: there will be errors and misinterpretations--these are mine.

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Section: The ®Rst Years: 1923±1929mentioning

confidence: 99%