The History of Surgical Anesthesia

Keys, Thomas E.; K., L.

doi:10.1097/00000441-196508000-00032

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“…During the French expedition to Annapurna in 1950, Jacques Oudot performed a stellate ganglion block on expedition leader Maurice Herzog in an attempt to improve circulation to his frostbitten hands -snowbound in a tent at 6000 m [19]. The Incas had performed skull trephinations in the Andes of South America, probably using cocaine mixed with saliva as a local anaesthetic, some centuries earlier [20]. However, Oudot's use of lidocaine, a derivative of cocaine, is perhaps the highest altitude at which regional or local anaesthesia has been used.…”

Section: From Etherdome To Everestmentioning

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Anaesthesia and high altitude: a history

Firth

Pattinson

2008

Anaesthesia

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Summary During an expedition to climb Everest in 1933, expedition doctor Raymond Greene administered an open‐drop chloroform anaesthetic to a Tibetan patient at an altitude of more than 14 000 feet. The patient’s subsequent apparent cardiopulmonary arrest has long been attributed to the effects of altitude on anaesthetic delivery. However, anaesthetics can be safely administered at a wide variety of altitudes by adequately trained and experienced anaesthetists. The problems may have arisen from an inadequate depth of anaesthesia consequent to decreased chloroform vaporisation in a cold environment, Greene’s concern about potential depression of ventilation and the contemporary lack of a precise approach to assessing depth of anaesthesia.

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Section: From Etherdome To Everestmentioning

confidence: 99%

Anaesthesia and high altitude: a history

Firth

Pattinson

2008

Anaesthesia

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“…In the past hundred years of nutritional research, we have progressed from the concept that protein, carbohydrates, and fats plus some unknown substances were sufficient for a complete diet for man and animals to the present, where we now know that, in addition to water and oxygen, 16 …”

Section: Nutritionmentioning

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IV. Animal experimentation leading to better care of laboratory and pet animals.

Soave¹

1967

Am J Public Health Nations Health

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“…[ 3 5 ] Airway management attracted increasing interest after the 1846 discovery of anesthesia. A diverse assortment of physicians, priests, engineers, ministers and even musicians, made subsequent inventions and discoveries in airway management [ 1 ]. The use of the neuromuscular blocking drug, curare, to produce relaxation changed anesthetic delivery and launched further developments in airway management [ 6 ].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%