Avertin anaesthesia.
- Date:
- [between 1940 and 1949]
- Film
About this work
Description
This is a clinical film showing two patients anaesthetised by Avertin administered rectally and orally. The first patient is a child and the second an average woman. The anaesthetic agent is shown shown being prepared by a nurse
Publication/Creation
[Place of publication not identified], s.n.], [between 1940 and 1949]
Physical description
1 film reel (7 mins): si., b&w.; 16mm.
Notes
Part of the film collection comprising of 55 items donated by Nuffield Department of Anaesthetics, Oxford, to the Wellcome Trust in 2008. In 1937, Lord Nuffield established a clinical chair of anaesthesia in Oxford amidst some controversy that anaesthesia was even an academic discipline. The collection is a mixture of clinical and educational films made or held by the department to supplement their teaching dating from the late 1930s onwards.
Creator/production credits
No titles or credits on the film.
Copyright note
Nuffield
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Where to find it
Location Access Closed stores4178FCan't be requested Note