PPT 1 Flashcards
First reported use of ether and year
Dr. Crawford Long - 1842
Discovery of N2O
Priestly, 1773
First public use of ether
1846 by Dr. William Morton in ether dome, Mass General
First true anesthesiologist
Dr. Snow
First to utilize anesthesia generally
Dentists
Landmark case
Frank v. South
Ruling of frank v south
Margaret Hatfield not engaged in practice of medicine
1921
ANA rejected nurse anesthetists, Agatha Hodgins
Earliest administration of anesthesia
Ether and chloroform
First nurse to administer anesthesia
Catherine Lawrence
First year nurses gave anesthesia
1861
By nuns
First “nurse anesthetist”
Sister Mary Bernard; 1878
First CRNA school
Charity Hospital in New Orleans
Early physicians to support CRNAs
Mayo Broothers
Nurse who took over anesthesia at Mayo
Alice Magaw
Who is “mother of anesthesia”
Alice Magaw
Reason for name “mother of anesthesia”
First to document (3000 cases), taught dr.s and nurses sent from everywhere
Founded NANA
Agatha Hodgins
Magaws successor
Florence Henderson
First faculty position in medical school
Alice Hunt
One of first to use O2N2O
Agatha Hodgins
Spent life denouncing nurse anesthetist
Dr. Francis McMechan
1936
ASA founded (American society of anesthesiologists)
Meaning of “ology”
Expert
Frank v South
Significant court case - 1917; anesthesia NOT solely practice of medicine
1921
ANA denied nurse anesthetists
Hodgins
Margaret Hatfield
Found not guilty in frank v south (not engaged in practice of medicine)
World War I
Agatha taught European/British Drs how to give N2O/O2
Outcome of Frank v. South
Hatfield was not engaged in the practice of medicine
Agatha Hodgins first organization
NANA - National association of Nurse Anesthetists
First meeting of NANA
June 17, 1931 know this
Agatha Hodgins
Founder of first association of nurse anesthetists