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Hx of Anesthesia
Important dates and people
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Claims to be the first to use ether to relieve pain in minor procedures | 1841 Crawford Long |
| CT dentist driven out of Boston after failed attempt of using Nitric Oxide- Humbug | 1845 Horace Wells |
| American Dental Association and American Medical Association credited who with discovery of N20 | Wells |
| What happened 165 years ago in the Bullfinch building? | William Thomas Green Morton first used ether- no humbug |
| Who was the printer that Morton used the ether on? | Abbott |
| Who removed Abbotts vascular tumor? | Warren |
| Whose tombstone read this: "Inventor and Revealer of Inhalational anesthesia?" | Morton |
| What four men stake their claim in conquering surgical pain? | Long, Wells, Morton, and Jackson |
| Who was first to perform surgery on an etherized patient in Philadelphia to remove a cheek tumor? | Thomas Mutter |
| Philadelphia's first OB delivery under ether was performed by who? | Mitchell |
| Who was the first anesthesiologist who gave chloroform to the Queen Victoria during the birth of Prince Leopald? | John Snow |
| Who perfected an apparatus to distill ethyl ether by steam and didn't patent it? | Edward Squibb |
| Who was the Bostonian that had an anesthesia monument erected in the Public Garden? | Thomas Lee |
| Name a nurse who provided anesthesia to soldiers in the Civil War | Catharine Lawrence |
| Where was the first school of Nurse Anesthesia formed in 1909? | St. Vincent Hospital in Portland, Oregon |
| Who painted the "Gross Clinic?" | Thomas Eakin |
| Who were the surgeon and anesthetist in "The Gross Clinic"? | Gross & Hearn |
| First CRNA- nun | Sr. Mary Bernard Sheridan |
| What hospital was established by the sisters of St. Francis? | St. Mary's hospital |
| Mother of Anesthesia? open drop ether technique | Alice Magaw |
| Who administered anesthesia with Dr. Crile during WW1? | Agatha Hodgins |
| Who established the Lakeside Hospital School of Anesthesia? | Hodgins |
| What was the first legal challenge? | Frank vs. South |
| Who was anti-CRNA and became crippled? | McMechan |
| Who founded NANA (AANA)? | Hodgins |
| Who did Vern Hunt hire as his personal CRNA? | Dagmar Nelson |
| What was the 2nd legal challenge? | Chalmers- Francis Vs. Nelson |
| Who was the American CRNA that trained British nurses? | Anne Penland |
| Who first publicly recognized CRNA's in a book? | Virginia Thatcher |
| Philadelphia Nurse Anesthetist, AANA's first VP, Jewish, PANA's first president | Hilda Solomon |
| Who wrote "Watchful Care"? | Marianne Bankert |
| Who was a pioneering educator? | Helen Lamb |
| Who do we honor because of her professional advocacy? | Ira Gunn |
| What state was first to "opt out"? | Iowa |