Anaesthetics. With special reference to Ivan Magill.

Sir Ivan Magill KCVO, DSc, MB, BCh, BAO, FRCS, FFARCS (Hon), FFARCSI (Hon), DA, (1888-1986)

Ivan Whiteside Magill was born in Northern Ireland, and graduated from Queen’s University Belfast Medical School just before the Great War. In his lifetime anaesthetics developed from an adjunct of surgery to a recognised medical speciality. His personal contributions included greatly improving the apparatus and specific techniques, and most prominently, his endeavour to raise the status of the...

Autobiography of IVAN GUTMAN

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In this survey article a brief account on the development of Padmakar-Ivan (PI) index in that applications of Padmakar-Ivan (PI) index in the fascinating field of nano-technology are discussed.

CLINICAL PRACTICE Nitrous oxide exposure does not seem to be associated with increased mortality, stroke, and myocardial infarction: a non-randomized subgroup analysis of the General Anaesthesia compared with Local Anaesthesia for carotid surgery (GALA) trial

R. D. Sanders1,2,3*, C. Graham4, S. C. Lewis5, A. Bodenham6, M. J. Gough7 and C. Warlow8 on behalf of the GALA Trial Investigators 1 Department of Anaesthetics, Intensive Care and Pain Medicine and 2 Department of Leucocyte Biology, Imperial College London, London, UK 3 Magill Department of Anaesthetics, Intensive Care and Pain Medicine, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London, UK 4 Wellcome T...