PROGRAM

ANESTHESIA HISTORY ASSOCIATION

April 28, 1994

7:30 - 8:30 Continental Breakfast 7:30 - 4:00 Registration

8:30 – 10:00 Two Concurrent Sessions

GOTHAM SUITE

The Anesthesia Foundation:

Origin and Purposes

The Development of Academic

Anesthesiology: The Wisconsin

Model

Dr. Thomas K. Burnap

A Man for His Time

TAPESTRY SUITE

Winston Churchill and the

Anesthesia Act:

Unanswered Questions

Anesthesia and the Spanish

Civil War, with Special

Reference to Intravenous

Barbiturates

Anesthesia and the

Metropolitan Hospital

10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 – Noon – TWO CONCURRENT SESSIONS

The World Was Ready for The

Introduction of General Anesthesia

in the 1840s – Or Was It?

Controversies Surrounding The

Introduction of Anesthesia in Spain

The Billy Muckle Writings

of Crawford Long

F. H. McMechan and the Editorials in the Anesthesia Supplement of the American Journal of Surgery 1914-26

The Fight Against the "Lay Anesthetist in Southern California, 1919-1934

Durschordwe of Buffalo: Anesthesia Disciple of Evans and McMechan

NOON – 1:30 PLENARY LUNCHEON SESSION

1:30 – 3:00 TWO CONCURRENT SESSIONS

GOTHAM SUITE

More Writings of Crawford Long

The Background of Substance Abuse

In the U.S. Army During the War

Of the Rebellion (1861-1865)

TAPESTRY SUITE

The Development of the Equipment

for Spinal and Epidural Anesthesia

Creole Anesthesia

3:00 – 3:30 COFFEE BREAK

3:30 – 5:00 TWO CONCURRENT SESSIONS

The Dual Discovery of the

Hypnotic Action of Chloral Hydrate

Tracing Gas Exposure – A Realistic

Anesthetic Problem

The Copper Kettle: A Historical

Perspective

Horace Wells: The First

Impaired Anesthesiologist

A. Frederick Erdmann

Founder of the American Society

Of Anesthesiologists and

The Polhemus Project

Critical Incident Analysis

The Death of Hanna Greener

Was It Dysrhythmia or Asphyxiation