Pharm People

Question 1

Hippocrates

Answer 1

Accommodate the operator; avoid flinching and pulling away

Question 2

Dioscordes

Answer 2

Materia Medica; 5 volumes - 360 medical properties; used for 15 years

Question 3

Valerius Cordus

Answer 3

Diethyl Ether - used recreationally d/t whiskey tax

Question 4

Wren and Boyle

Answer 4

IV access using goose quill and bladder

Question 5

Joseph Priestly

Answer 5

Discovered oxygen and nitrous; photosynthesis

Question 6

Humphrey Davy

Answer 6

Discovered sodium, magnesium, potassium, and calcium; suggested use for surgical pain control

Question 7

Horace Wells

Answer 7

Used nitrous for dental procedures; public demo - patient still moved

Question 8

Andrews

Answer 8

Used nitrous and oxygen and patient didn’t become cyanotic

Question 9

Hewitt

Answer 9

First anesthesia machine utilizing nitrous and oxygen

Question 10

Crawford Long

Answer 10

Utilized ether for a vascular neck surgery; also used whiskey

Question 11

William Morton

Answer 11

Ether for denture fittings

Question 12

When was the first successful public ether demonstration?

Answer 12

1846

Question 13

Robinson Squibb

Answer 13

Squibb Pharmaceuticals; developed the process for pure ether

Question 14

James Simpson

Answer 14

Chloroform for OB patients; defined pain

Question 15

John Snow

Answer 15

“Discovered” epidemiology through a Cholera outbreak; chloroform for the royals’ births

Question 16

Guthrie

Answer 16

Hepatotoxicity when chloroform is used in children

Question 17

Levy

Answer 17

Chloroform stimulates the ANS - fatal VF in animals

Question 18

Koller

Answer 18

Cocaine for eye surgery

Question 19

Halstead

Answer 19

1st regional (mandibular) block with cocaine

Question 20

Bier

Answer 20

1st spinal with cocaine; developed Bier block

Question 21

Edmund Egar

Answer 21

Experiments with desflurane; MAC

Question 22

Alice Magaw

Answer 22

Mother of anesthesia; 14000 open drop ether cases with no deaths

Question 23

Agatha Hodgins

Answer 23

Founded AANA; opened one of the first anesthesia schools; developed nitrous and oxygen techniques; besties with Dr. Crile

Question 24

Mary Bernard

Answer 24

1st nurse anesthetist in 1877

Question 25

Dr. Liston

Answer 25

Long surgeries = poor outcomes; killed 3 people in 1 surgery; handwashing

Question 26

George Crile

Answer 26

Cleveland Clinic; Nitrous and oxygen anesthetic; LA with procaine

Question 27

Harvey Cushing

Answer 27

regional blocks before emergence; anesthetic records (BP and HR measurements)

Question 28

Guedel

Answer 28

Developed chart for 4 stages of anesthesia