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Article| April 2021 This Month ... That Year! Snippets from the History of Anesthesia Lalitha Sundararaman, MBBS, MD Lalitha Sundararaman, MBBS, MD Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar ASA Monitor April 2021, Vol. 85, e1–e2. https://doi.org/10.1097/01.ASM.0000742752.25272.02 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Cite Icon Cite Get Permissions Search Site Citation Lalitha Sundararaman; This Month ... That Year! Snippets from the History of Anesthesia. ASA Monitor 2021; 85:e1–e2 doi: https://doi.org/10.1097/01.ASM.0000742752.25272.02 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter All ContentAll PublicationsASA Monitor Search Advanced Search Topics: cooley's anemia, dentists, ether, ethyl, ethers, homicide, nitrous oxide, oxygen, snow - weather, chloroform, dentistry April saw many seminal events cardinal to the growth of anesthesia. Dentists, epidemiologists, and military physicians all made their mark in history through their contributions to anesthesiology. Through the ages, the month of April saw anesthesiology shaping into a more definite science with momentous papers such as Arthur Guedel's famous classification of the stages of ether anesthesia. But at the other end of the spectrum, April also saw the downright acrimonious arguments against the use of oxygen with nitrous oxide anesthesia in the fear that it would “dilute it.” This seems farcical now but was much believed in the 1890s. April 7, 1847: The first obstetric anesthetic is administered Nathan Cooley Keep: Dentist, anesthesiologist and forensic scientist. This man did it all! Nathan Cooley Keep administered the first obstetric anesthetic in the United States in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Keep was... © 2021 American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA), All Rights Reserved.2021 You do not currently have access to this content.
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