2- Def, History, Law Flashcards
define anesthesia
temporary loss of sensation in a living body either with the patient conscious (LA) or unconscious (GA)
who coined the term anesthesia
Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes
verse where God created Eve (first anesthesiologist)
Genesis 2:21
verse: alcohol can cause loss of sensation
Genesis 9:21
Homer
Nepenth
causes numbness and insensitivity
Hyoscine
ancient and medieval times (drugs)
Nepenth Hua Tuo opium Hyoscine Cannabis
ancient and medieval times (non-drug method)
cold concussion hypnosis blood-letting compression
18th century: Animal magnetism
Mesmer
1772
18th century: Nitrous oxide/laughing gas
Priestley
1777
nitrous oxide but this time he published his work but people didnt believe that a gas can numb px or make a patient lose his sensation
Humphrey Davy
1800
used carbon dioxide on animals instead of nitrous oxide
Henry Hill Hickman
1830
19th century
effect almost the same as laughing gas
ether frolics
used in parties as form of entertainment
ether frolics
used in frog dissections to induce sleep
chloroform (ether frolics)
well known medical practitioner who sponsors parties na may ether
Georgia Crawford Long
dentist fro Hartford, Connecticut
Horace Wells
attended a presentation by Gardner Q. Colton on NO2
Horace Wells
noticed that one of the volunteers couldn’t feel pain from a wound so the next day, he performed an extraction using NO2 and it worked
Horace Wells