Intravenous paraldehyde.
- Date:
- [between 1940 and 1949]
- Film
About this work
Description
This is a clinical film demonstrating the action of the anaesthetic agent paraldehyde on two patients; firstly an elderly man and then an adult female. The middle part of the film has a pathological cross section of a human head and upper torso showing how the specimen is intubated
Publication/Creation
[Place of publication not identified], s.n.], [between 1940 and 1949]
Physical description
1 film reel (7 mins): si., b&w.; 16mm.
Copyright note
Nuffield
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
There are no opening or closing credits.
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Where to find it
Location Access Closed stores4179FCan't be requested Note