Spinal anaesthesia.

Date:
[between 1940 and 1949]
  • Film

About this work

Description

This is a clinical film demonstrating the siting and methodology of spinal anaesthesia on patients. A board model with tubing and coloured water is used to illustrate the transit of the anaesthesia.

Publication/Creation

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

Physical description

1 film reel (06:30 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

There are no opening or closing credits.

Copyright note

Wellcome Collection
Copyright previously held by Nuffield Department of Anaesthetics and transferred to Wellcome in 2008.

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