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The first ever procedure
In the mid 1800s surgeons didn't actually have a specific medication to knock a person out during a procedure, they only had alcohol,a bullet,forms of unhealthy medications they can cause long term damage, or the patient just had to deal with it. However on October,16,1864 A Boston dentist William T.G. Morton used sulfuric ether to anesthetize a man who needed surgery to remove a tumor from his neck,
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chloroform and ether mixture
Dr. Frederic W. Hewitt creates a chloroform-ether mixture.It was known as the ACE mixture ,ACE mixture was most commonly made up in the ratio: 1 part alcohol, 2 parts chloroform, and 3 parts ether.
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The first 2 additions of anesthesia
The first of two editions of Anesthesia, the USA's first such comprehensive textbook, is published by Dr. James T. Gwathmey,
Dr. Dennis E. Jackson develops a carbon dioxide absorbing anesthesia system, allowing for a patient to re-breathe their exhaled air containing the anesthetic, resulting in the use of less anesthetic and the avoidance of waste.
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Ethylene-oxygen
Isabella Herb administers the ethylene-oxygen surgical anesthetic.It was used to put people in a trance like state while operating.
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Dr.Ralph M
Dr. Ralph M. Waters arrives at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. From there he trained his anesthesia residents in one of the world's 1st university-based residency training programs in anesthesiology. Waters also will pioneer carbon dioxide absorbing apparatus.
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Thiopental
In 1929 John S. Lundy makes the use of the IV anesthetic
Thiopental also known as Pentothal. Thiopental was a popular choice for short procedures. It was also used to induce, or start, anesthesia, and augment other anesthetics.
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Muscle Relaxant
The 1st successful use of a muscle relaxant as an anesthetic is recorded Drs. Harold Griffith and Enid Johnson Squibb's Lewis H. Wright, created the world's 1st successful anesthetic use of the muscle relaxant.
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Difficult Airway Algorithm
The ASA publishes its first Difficult Airway Algorithm, specifying a safe and systematic approach to assisted ventilation in patients under general anesthesia.
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MOCA
Starting in the 2000's , The MOCA begins for newly minted Diplomates of the ABA. Over the next dozen years, individual ASA members committee work with the ABA to establish a Simulation Education Network to assist in educating and certifying anesthesiologists in their medical specialty.
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Health Affairs article
In 2010 Health Affairs published an article was published by Brian Dulisse and Jerry Cromwell stating that "No harm found when nurse anesthetist work without supervision by physicians",this study shown and confirmed that patients were safe with nurse anesthetists and that they had a trusted form of medication for the process of putting the patient to sleep.
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Modern Anesthesia
It is no surprise that modern day anesthesia is way more safer than it was in the 80's and 90's.Unlike medicines like ether or chloroform used for anesthesia, present day anesthetists use different drugs for specific effects. This helps them avoid using large doses of a single drug.
Source:https://www.medindia.net/patients/patientinfo/anaesthesia-modern.htm
