Anesthesia History Calendar

ANESTHESIA HISTORY CALENDAR

This calendar includes items related to the history of anesthesia, pain and pain management, and critical care medicine.

Suggestions for additions, corrections, etc. can be sent to A.J. Wright

Added to the Librarians’ Internet Index in August, 2006!

NOTES:

**Many items in this calendar have been taken from Pasquale Accardo's The Medical Almanac [Humana Press, 1992]**

Great Britain’s History of Anaesthesia Society has a timeline at http://www.histansoc.org.uk/HAS/dates.htm

"Anesthesia's Great Awakenings" by Betty J. Bamforth, M.D., was published in the Anesthesia History Association Newsletter 8(1):14-15, January 1990

An extensive "A Chronology of Events Relating to Anesthesiology and Allied Subjects" can be found in Keys TE. The History of Surgical Anesthesia. Huntington, New York: Krieger, 1978 [rep. 1945 ed.], pp 103-125

A "Calendar of interesting and important events in the history of medicine and anaesthesia" can be found in Bushman GB, Davies NJH, Atkinson RS. A Short History of Anaesthesia: The First 150 Years. Butterworth-Heinemann, 1996, pp. 180-200

John S. Lundy’s Clinical Anesthesia [1942] has an appendix with a chronological listing of important events in anesthesia history from 4000 B.C. to 1941 A.D.

The chapter "History of Neural Blockade and Pain Management" by David L. Brown and B. Raymond Fink in Cousins MJ, et al, eds. Neural Blockade in Clinical Anesthesia and Management of Pain 3rd ed 1998 pp 3-32 contains five chronologies: "Ideas Concerning Pain and Neural Blockade," "Local Anesthesia," "Local Anesthetic Agents," "Individual Neural Blockade Techniques," and "Study of Complications of Neural Blockade"

“The Chronology of Events in the History of Nitrous Oxide” is available in Heironimus TW. History of Nitrous Oxide. In: Nitrous Oxide, Eastwood DW, ed. Clinical Anesthesia, volume 1, 1964, pp 2-8

The AANA's "Through the Years in Nurse Anesthesia History" is available here.

For medical history, see A Chronology of Medicine and Related Sciences by Leslie T. Morton and Robert J. Moore [Ashgate, 1997] and The Timetables of Medicine: An Illustrated Chronology of the History of Medicine from Prehistory to Present Times by John Cule and Roy Porter [Leventhal, 2000]

Today in Health History [from Aetna] is available at http://www.intelihealth.com/IH/ihtIH/WSIHW000/333/7087.htm

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