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Bookmark or Share- World War II and Physician Specialization - AnesthesiologyUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. vkopp@aims.unc.eduTo the Editor:—The history of anesthesiology as a physician specialty in the USA is fragmented at best. A handful of books, numerous articles, and piles of primary source documents must be read to fashion a coherent picture of historical events and social forces responsible for transforming anesthesia ...
- The Mayo Clinic World War II Short Course and Its Effect on ...WORLD War II changed American medicine. Physicians were recruited in unprecedented numbers because the armed services needed specialists to care for the troops both in and out of combat. The need for physicians who were able to administer anesthetics to injured soldiers was of paramount concern. To accelerate training, the armed services created postgraduate courses to teach the fundamentals ...
- How Low Will It Go? Predicting Intraoperative HypotensionComplex Information for Anesthesiologists Presented Quickly and Clearly*Performance reported for Hypotension Prediction Index forward predictions using invasive arterial monitoring. All data are reported for performance 5 min before hypotension. AUC, area under the receiver operating characteristic curve; FDA, U.S. Food and Drug Administration.Infographic created by Holly B. Ende, Vanderbilt ...
- Edison’s Anesthetic | Anesthesiology | American Society of ...American inventor and businessman Thomas Alva Edison is legendary for his contributions to such technologies as the lightbulb, the telephone, the phonograph, and motion pictures, among many others.1In his lifetime, Edison obtained 1,093 US patents and some 1,239 patents in other countries. Little known among these efforts was his “improved anesthetic compound.”In the summer of 1882, George ...
- Leveraging Endogenous Pain Modulation for Analgesia“Pain inhibits pain,” a phenomenon whereby we perceive less pain from a noxious stimulus when a separate painful stimulus is applied to another part of the body, may seem paradoxical at first. However, this observation is firmly supported by pain science and is grounded in the complex interactions within the body’s endogenous pain modulation system.1 Known as conditioned pain modulation ...
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