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Sumerian artifacts were found that depicted the same opium poppys that are used in Anesthesia
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Sushruta discovered the use of cannabis vapors to sedate patients before their surgeries. This method was used in India and eventually China also.
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Assyrians use carotid compression to produce brief unconsciousness before circumcision or cataract surgery. Egyptians employed the same technique for eye surgery.
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Dioscorides, a Greek surgeon, recommended mandrake to be boiled into wine to cause loss of feeling in their body for the ones who were going to be cut or cauterized.
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Herbal mixtures such as opium, mandrake, henbane, and/or hemlock are soaked into a sponge, then the sponge us places under the patient's nose so that he breathes in the Anesthetic vapors.
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Inca Shamans would chew on coca leaves mixed with vegetable ash and dripped their cocaine saliva into the wounds of their patients to ease the pain.
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The first public display of modern anesthesia was performed on October 10, 1846 or otherwise known as "Either day". William T. G. Morton and surgeon John Collins Warren made anesthesia history at Massachusetts General Hospital with the successful use of diethyl ether.
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Dr. August Bier conducted the first recorded spinal anesthetic using cocaine.
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Dr. Mathias J. Seifert coins the words "Anesthesiology" and "Anesthesiologist." He made it known that an "Anesthetist" is a technician, and an "Anesthesiologist" is the authority on anesthesia and anesthetics
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Dr. Dennis Jackson develops a co2 absorbing anesthesia system, which allows patients to rebreath their exhaled air, which contains the anesthesia. This system resulted in the use of less anesthesia and it resulted in less waste.
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In 1940 the ABA was granted independent board status. The ABA helped define anesthesiology as a medical specialty and provided the American medical establishment with formal recognition of physicians specializing in the art and science of anesthesia.
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Torsten Gordh, a MD in Sweden, clinically introduced lidocaine as a local form Anesthesia.
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Sevoflurane is clinically introduced as an inhalational anesthetic.
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If too much Anesthesia is administered it can result in lack of oxygen, brain damage, and possibly death; if not enough Anesthesia is given it can result in the patient waking up in the middle of the surgery.
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The average annual salary for an Anesthesiologist is about $382,100, which comes down to about $183 an hour.
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