ANÆSTHESIA FOR PERORAL ENDOSCOPY

Anæsthesia for Thoracic Surgery

(Hi) These operations take quite a lot of time. Operations lasting for 4 hours are quite common. If a lung is kept collapsed for such a length of time it is rather difficult to expand it again after the operation, so at frequent intervals the anaesthetist inflates the lung for which positive pressure anaesthesia is necessary. Before the operation is decided upon we see that adequate haemoglobin...

Ethyl Chloride for Short Anæsthesia

we have come to use ethyl chloride on an open mask. For teeth extractions a gag is first inserted. Then a Schimmelbusch's mask with four layers of gauze is applied to the face. Round the mask a towel is wrapped in such a way as to leave only a small portion of the gauze visible as is done when giving ether. Ethyl chloride is sprayed for a few seconds on the gauze and the patient is asked to bre...

Mixed Anæsthesia

The newest tliinjr in surgery is mixed anaesthesia, or mixed narcosis hs sgme prefer to cull it. The idea itself is comparatively old, and chloroform and morphia hare been used together in various ways for the production of anaesthesia ill hospitals, both at home and abroad in a fitful and experimental sort of way, for some three or four years past. But in this country, at all events as far as ...

Intravenous Anæsthesia

Elementary Anæsthesia

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