Unlike the anesthetists of yesteryears, who utilized a single agent like ether or chloroform alone for anesthesia, the present day anesthetists use different drugs for specific effects. This helps ...

Anesthesia was in its infancy when the American Civil War began in 1861. The sheer number of casualties gave surgeons on both sides the opportunity to gain experience with the first two anesthetic ...

The significance of this groundbreaking achievement extends far beyond the operating room (OR). Although anesthesia is a relatively new concept in the millennia that we’ve been talking about medicine, ...

“I was amazed by all the life-threatening experiments that put the patient's health on the line,” anaesthesiologist Lars Prag Antonsen says. Antonsen recently published the book Narkosens ...

The Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology in Park Ridge, Ill., has embarked on a project that will digitize its anesthesia library and museum, according to a release. The Wood Library-Museum of ...

"Doctor, will you give me Chloroform or Anesthesia?" This is the often-repeated query by many patients about to undergo an operation. Little do they know that chloroform became obsolete decades ago.