Class 1 Flashcards
Horace Well and William Morton
Dentist who used anesthesia
Crawford Long 1842
Used Ether to remove a cyst but didn’t report the finding. One of the first ppl to use anesthesia.
Morton 1846
Massachusetts general hospital
Did surgery 1846 with ether In the ether dome..
He tried to patent ether..
Ether was difficult when pt went under they fought.. so they remember
Chloroform
rapid induction no ether frolic
After 3 deaths they stopped using it.
Megdison surgeon
Greener unfortunate pt
Pt took breaths and died really quickly!!
Problem with anesthesia
Infections
Occasional anesthetist - ppl didn’t know how to use it. Physicians didn’t want to do it. So they used interns to give ether. Interns wouldn’t pay attention to pt and pts. would die.
Harvey Cushing
Father of neurosurgery
When he was a student he gave anesthesia and the pt died. He was told not to worry about it. He never forgot to!!
Catherine Lawrence
A nurse in the service provided anesthesia for the wounded during civil war. She wrote a book. She felt it was important job and nurses were stepping up to do it.
Sister Mary Bernard
Sisters Of St. Joseph
1877 St Vincent’s Hospital in Erie, PA
1878 took over anesthesia duties of the hospital
Sister Mary Erhard
Maui Hawaii 1886
Administered anesthesia for 42 years
Sister St. Francis
Rochester Minnesota
1889 St. Mary’s Hospital Mayo Clinic
Trained Alice Magaw “The Mother of Anesthesia” trained really hard. Was a standout
Agatha Higgins
Lakeside Hospital late became Cleveland clinic
1908 personal anesthetist of Dr George Crile
She founded the American Association of Nurse Anesthetist
Alice Magaw
Established anesthesiology service at Mayo Clinic
Taught practitioners all over the world.
Published several different papers but physician presented them because women weren’t allowed.
Reported 14000 cases with on complications
Eva McNinch
PA hospital hired her as an anesthetist
Salaried and on call for the hospital
Alice Weinberg
Jewish Hospital Philadelphia 1915
Their first anesthetist
Chosen by Dr. William Teller because of her Pugnacity”
Agatha Hodgins
Introduce gas anesthesia nitrous oxide gas mix
Served with Dr. Crile In World War 1 France
I’m 1915 Set up the first organized school of nurse anesthesia In Cleveland at Lakeside Hospital
Physicians stated challenging nurses giving anesthesia without a physician
1st AANA PRESIDENT standardized education
Sophie Gran Winton
Awarded medals for heroism she was a civilian nor an office during ww1
Trained in Minneapolis
Alice Hunt
Appointed to Yale Medical School 1922
Wrote Anesthesia principles and practice 1946 first nurse Anesthetist to publish a book
She taught at the medical school
Helen Lamb
Performed the first successful pneumonectomy anesthetic in 1929
Dr. Graham got credit for it.
Established a school at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis.
Collaborated with Dr Richard Von fOregger for 20 years on an anesthesia machine..
1945
2 applications were approved for African American nurse anesthetist