2- Def, History, Law Flashcards

1
Q

define anesthesia

A

temporary loss of sensation in a living body either with the patient conscious (LA) or unconscious (GA)

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2
Q

who coined the term anesthesia

A

Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes

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3
Q

verse where God created Eve (first anesthesiologist)

A

Genesis 2:21

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4
Q

verse: alcohol can cause loss of sensation

A

Genesis 9:21

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5
Q

Homer

A

Nepenth

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6
Q

causes numbness and insensitivity

A

Hyoscine

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7
Q

ancient and medieval times (drugs)

A
Nepenth
Hua Tuo
opium
Hyoscine
Cannabis
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8
Q

ancient and medieval times (non-drug method)

A
cold
concussion
hypnosis
blood-letting
compression
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9
Q

18th century: Animal magnetism

A

Mesmer

1772

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10
Q

18th century: Nitrous oxide/laughing gas

A

Priestley

1777

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11
Q

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

A

Humphrey Davy

1800

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12
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used carbon dioxide on animals instead of nitrous oxide

A

Henry Hill Hickman
1830
19th century

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13
Q

effect almost the same as laughing gas

A

ether frolics

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14
Q

used in parties as form of entertainment

A

ether frolics

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15
Q

used in frog dissections to induce sleep

A

chloroform (ether frolics)

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16
Q

well known medical practitioner who sponsors parties na may ether

A

Georgia Crawford Long

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17
Q

dentist fro Hartford, Connecticut

A

Horace Wells

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18
Q

attended a presentation by Gardner Q. Colton on NO2

A

Horace Wells

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19
Q

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

A

Horace Wells

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20
Q

when he did a demo in front of people at Massachusetts General Hospital but failed bec he didnt know that it’s dose-related

A

Horace Wells

21
Q

became dependent on NO2 himself

A

Horace Wells

22
Q

worked with Charles T. Jackson on ether

A

William T.G. Morton

23
Q

made a successful demo at the MGH in Boston with John C. Warren

A

William T.G. Morton

24
Q

Marketed “Letheon”

A

William T.G. Morton

25
Q

chemist who suggested use of ether to Morton

A

Charles Jackson

26
Q

surgeon who performed surgery for the demo of morton

A

John Warren

27
Q

father of anes according to Dr. Ramos

A

Horace Wells

28
Q

US Congress awarded the recognition to __ in 1872

Father of Anes

A

William Morton

29
Q

ADA and AMA awarded the recognition to __ in 1864

Father of Anes

A

Horace Wells

30
Q

produced a hypodermic syringe designed for injecting drugs used in ophthalmic veterinary work

A

Von Newwer

1872

31
Q

patented another type of syringe with a needle but before the needle is inserted, the skin is first incised

A

Zophar Jayne

32
Q

administered drugs by using an elaborate stylet, with which the solution is forced by gravity

A

Francis Rynd

33
Q

invented an all metal hypodermic syringe

A

Charles Gabriel Pravaz

34
Q

glass and metal syringe for injecting opiates subcutaneously for treating neuralgia

A

Alexander Wood

35
Q

a French chemist, obtained a crude extract of cocaine from the South American plant Erythroxylum Coca

A

Gardeke

36
Q

first to isolate pure cocaine

A

Frederick Wohler

37
Q

used cocaine for clinical ophthalmology

A

Karl Koller

38
Q

First to block the mandibular nerve by injecting 4% cocaine intraorally

A

William Stewart Halsted

39
Q

successfully demonstrated that afferent impulses could be blocked by depositing an anesthetic at some point between the periphery and the brain

A

Leonard Corning

40
Q

started spinal anesthesia

A

Leonard Corning

41
Q

demonstrated the use of epinephrine to retard local anesthetic absorption form the site of injection

A

Heinrich Braun

42
Q

synthesized Procaine

A

Alfred Einhorn

43
Q

remained for many years the most commonly used LA and the parent drug of all ester type of LA

A

Procaine

44
Q

military doctor that devised the cartridge system of loading syringes thus simplifying chair side administration of LA; idea from rifles

A

Harvey Cook

45
Q

synthesized Lignocaine

A

Nils Lofgren

46
Q

parent drug of all amide type

A

Lignocaine/ lidocaine/ xylocaine

47
Q

made the dental aspirating syringe available

A

Novocol company

48
Q

disposable sterile needles made available by

A

Cook-Waite Roehr Company

49
Q

pertains mainly on the responsibility of the dentist in administering anesthesia to patients

A

medico-legal aspects