Pharm People Flashcards
Hippocrates
Accommodate the operator; avoid flinching and pulling away
Dioscordes
Materia Medica; 5 volumes - 360 medical properties; used for 15 years
Valerius Cordus
Diethyl Ether - used recreationally d/t whiskey tax
Wren and Boyle
IV access using goose quill and bladder
Joseph Priestly
Discovered oxygen and nitrous; photosynthesis
Humphrey Davy
Discovered sodium, magnesium, potassium, and calcium; suggested use for surgical pain control
Horace Wells
Used nitrous for dental procedures; public demo - patient still moved
Andrews
Used nitrous and oxygen and patient didn’t become cyanotic
Hewitt
First anesthesia machine utilizing nitrous and oxygen
Crawford Long
Utilized ether for a vascular neck surgery; also used whiskey
William Morton
Ether for denture fittings
When was the first successful public ether demonstration?
1846
Robinson Squibb
Squibb Pharmaceuticals; developed the process for pure ether
James Simpson
Chloroform for OB patients; defined pain
John Snow
“Discovered” epidemiology through a Cholera outbreak; chloroform for the royals’ births
Guthrie
Hepatotoxicity when chloroform is used in children
Levy
Chloroform stimulates the ANS - fatal VF in animals
Koller
Cocaine for eye surgery
Halstead
1st regional (mandibular) block with cocaine
Bier
1st spinal with cocaine; developed Bier block
Edmund Egar
Experiments with desflurane; MAC
Alice Magaw
Mother of anesthesia; 14000 open drop ether cases with no deaths
Agatha Hodgins
Founded AANA; opened one of the first anesthesia schools; developed nitrous and oxygen techniques; besties with Dr. Crile
Mary Bernard
1st nurse anesthetist in 1877
