Intro the Anesthesia Flashcards
(34 cards)
Early days:
Hippocrates
Hippocrates 460-377 BC
“Accomodate the operator”
Early days:
Materia Medica
5 volumes; plants, animal, and mineral products
360 medical properties
Mandragora and wine
What are the properties?
Hallucinogenic
Human shaped
Magical properties :)
Valerius Cordus
What did this guy make? What are the components of what he made?
Diethyl ether= Sulfuric Acid + Ethyl Alcohol
Ether: “greek for ignite”; tested on chickens
Sir Christopher Wren
and
Robert Boyle
What did they create??
IV access using a GOOSE QUILL
Tested by giving alcohol into a dog’s vein
Joseph Priestly
What did he discover?
3 Things
Discovered:
1.) Oxygen
2.) NITROUS OXIDE
3.) Photosynthesis
Humphry Davy
What did he discover?
Electrolytes!
Potassium, Na, Ca, Mg
“Suggested use for surgical pain control”
Horace Wells
DENTIST GUY!
Used nitrous for dental pt/ tooth extraction
Noticed with the use of nitrous -> No recall of pain
Andrews… Chicago surgeon..
what did he do?
Admin nitrous/oxygen anesthesia without cyanosis :D
Hewitt
1st anesthesia machine with nitrous/oxygen
Crawford Long
What did he discover?? or do?
First to discover Ether
Delievered ether for a patient with 2 vascular neck tumors
William Morton
Dentist,
Needed anesthesia for denture fitting (Ether)
Dr. Robinson Squibb
What did he develop?
What is he the founder of?
-Developed process for PURE ETHER
-Founded Squibb pharmaceuticals– the leading manufacturer
Disadvantages of Ether:
1.)
2.)
3.)
4.)
1.) Flammable
2.) Prolonged induction— long onset
3.) Unpleasant, persistent oder— smelly
4.) N/V
Sir James Simpson
What did he define?
What are his viewpoints?
Defined pain: “actual or potential tissue damage”.
Religious opposition.
Used the idea that god liked anesthesia and that women did not deserve pain for childbirth.
Obstetrician
Think: CHLOROFORM + CHILDBIRTH
Dr. John Snow
What did he discover
Full time anesthetist
“Discovered epidemiology” when he traced London cholera outbreak to water source
Treated Queen victoria + princesses
chloroform?
What was controversy with chloroform?
Why is chloroform bad??
1.) Delayed chloroform hepatoxicity in children
2.) Adrenaline/ ANS stimulation -> V-fib in animals
3.) Respiratory arrest vs cardiac paralysis
DEATH WITH CHLOROFORM.
Drug vs provider ignorance
Dr. Koller
what did he use anesthetic for?
Ophthalmologist
Anesthetic for eye surgery
Dr. Halsted
First person to do what?
1st regional (mandibular) nerve block with cocaine
Dr. August Bier
what did he develop?
First spinal anesthetic with ___?
1st spinal anesthetic with cocaine
Developed Bier block
Sister Mary Bernard
Alice Magaw
Nuns were the first nurse anesthesist!
“Mother of Anesthesia”
14k surgery cases without death
Agatha Hodgins
What did she open and develop?
What was founded by her?
Opened first nurse anesthesia school– taught in France
Developed nitrous/oxygen technique
Founded AANA
Recent Anesthetics:
Cyclopropane
Halothane
Isoflurane
why were they not used anymore?
Why do we still use isoflurane
Cyclopropane: VIOLENT EXPLOSIVE. no more use
Halothane: Slow onset, Hepatitis
Isoflurane:
SAFE, less N/V, quicker onset than halothane
Desflurane
-Most rapid onset and offset
-High vapor pressure
-Large quantity to achieve anesthesia