Open drop ether (part two). No. 2.

Date:
[1944]
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Description

The next section; The lack of premedication . A male patient s airways fill with saliva and then it is discovered that the patient has false teeth. Anaesthesia gets lighter and the patient vomits, he has to be turned on his side (this is a very serious complication). He has atrophine injected. A fourth complication is laryngeal spasm in the second stage; checking the patient s pulse, if it becomes too faint, the patient may require mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. The fifth complication is respiratory arrest due to overdose. The female patient is deeply anaesthetised; her pulse is steady. Observations have to be maintained in case she becomes syonised then artifical respiration is performed. The sixth complication is a laryngeal spasm due to surgical stimuli. Surgery has to pause as the patient stirs. The seventh complication is excessive use of the corneal reflex. This can cause ulceration or conjunctivitis. Eye drops can be applied as long as there is no ether present (the drops would absorb it and cause irritation). Recapitulation section of all these pitfalls; experience is key as well as maintaining a level of anaesthesia, clear airways and remembering that ether is explosive when combined with oxygen. The next section is Ether anaesthesia in emergency . Any GP has all the apparatus needed in his bag; this is briefly illustrated. A patient being attended to at home is seen, as well as a mocked up traffic accident. The use in wartime is suggested as a medic attends a patient in a tent. The End RFU 00:10:52

Publication/Creation

[Place of publication not identified], s.n.], [1944]

Physical description

1 film reel (10:52 mins): sd., b&w.; 16mm.

Notes

Part two of two.
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

Direction by Margaret Thomson, Photography by A.E. Jeakins . Produced by Realist Film Unit. Made with the co-operation of the Department of Anaesthetics, Westminister Hospital, London.

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