Signs of anaesthesia including controlled respiration.

Date:
[between 1940 and 1949]
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Description

This is a clinical film showing the induction of anaesthesia on a patient using the open drop ether technique. Respiration in the patient is aided. There are no eye movements and the pupil is dilated proving that complete anaesthesia has been achieved.

Publication/Creation

[Place of publication not identified], s.n.], [between 1940 and 1949]

Physical description

1 film reel (05:20 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.

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There are no production credits on this film.

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Nuffield

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