pain and anesthetics #8 Flashcards
Congenital analgesia?
Cannot feel pain, but can feel touch, not always Temp.
Men have more?
Women have more?
back pain, cluster headaches
Migraines, UTIs, carpal tunnel
Acute pain vs Chronic (% of pop.)?
Results from inflammation/injury and goes away, other persist. 25 >65years old
Can Pain become a disease?
Yes when touches spinal cord and rewires itself
Lebenswecker?
Tool to riderect pain with needles.
Morpheus god of?
Sleep
%of women orthopedic surgeons nowaday?
5-10%
1st anesthetic? Possible founders?
EtOH heated with acid = Sweet vitriol = Ether/Diethyl ether + H2O
Raymunus 1200s
Paracelsus
Joseph Priestley 1772 first to make? How?
N2O/Nitrous oxide. Heat ammonium nitrate (fertilizer and explosive) -> N2O + 2 H2O
Sir Humprey Davy 1800s discovered?
Breath N2O = euphoric effect (Whipping cream)
William T.G. Morton 1844?
Horace Wells 1844?
Is an example of?
Used ether inhaler in op.
First, op with N2O (tooth removal)
Simultaneous discovery
Dr. Crawford Long 1848?
First, op with ether
Letheon=
Ether
John Collin William 1840s
Let Morton use anesthetics when he operated
2 biggest op in 1800s?
Amputation, surface tumors
Humbug?
When pt left during b/c too much pain.
Press celebrated ether as?
Diminishing pain
Who and how he killed houdini?
McGill student by punching him in the stomach and supposedly caused him an appendicitis .
Robert Houdini supposedly?
Used ether to induce euphoria to public during levitation.
James Simpson invented? date
Chloroform 1847
Queen Victoria 1853 was the first to?
Anesthetized during 8th child, contreversy at the time