HAPPY WORLD ANAESTHESIA DAY -TODAY !
DEDICATED TO ALL ANAESTHETISTS:star_struck:
“World Anaesthesia Day is observed on the anniversary of the first use of ether anaesthesia by American dentist William T. G. Morton in 1846”
“He demonstrated how inhaling of ether may be used for painless dental treatment of his patients.”
ANAESTHETISTS TO REMEMBER ON THIS DAY
- Oliver Wendell Holmes coined the term anesthesiology in1846.
- William T.G. Morton demonstrated general anesthetic effects of ether on October 16, 1846 ( World ether day)
- Carl Koller- 1884- introduced cocaine as an ophthalmic anesthetic
- Joseph Priestley- produced Nitrous oxide-1772
- Horace wells: demonstrated use of Nitrous oxide for tooth extraction-1844
- August bier- 1898-first spinal anesthesia
- John Simpson: first to use chloroform
- John Lundy first used IV anesthetic thipentone-1934
- Ferdinade Cathelin- 1901-caudal epidural anesthesia
- Fidel pages – 1921- Lumbar epidural anesthesia
- Alexander wood- 1855-invented needle & syringe
- Harold Griffith- 1942-used curare
- Lofgren- 1943-introduced Lidocaine
- John Lundy & Ralph waters: coined ‘balanced anesthesia’
- Ketamine: first used by Domino & Corsen
- Succinyl choline: synthesized by Bovet
- First Boyle’s machine: Edmund Gaskin Boyle in 1917
- First endotracheal intubation: ivan Magill
- First nasal intubation: Stanlers Rowbothom