The ethyl chloride and rectal ether technique.
- Date:
- [1944]
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Description
This film shows the induction and maintenance of anaesthesia by ethyl cloride and rectal ether.A middle-aged male patient is roused from his semi-conscious state, an attendant is shown holding an alarm clock indicating with its second hand how quickly this occurs. A blackboard with chalked up details of the patient is shown. This indicates that the patient is 'tough' (to anaethetise). A second patient is shown profoundly anaesthetised; his eyelids are drawn back. He is roused. The equipment is shown functioning in detail.
Publication/Creation
[Place of publication not identified], s.n.], [1944]
Physical description
1 Digibeta (5 mins): si., b&w.; PAL.
1 VHS (5 mins): si., b&w.; PAL.
1 DVD (5 mins): si., b&w.; PAL.
1 VHS (5 mins): si., b&w.; PAL.
1 DVD (5 mins): si., b&w.; PAL.
Notes
Conservation and access copies made from 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.
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Nuffield
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