I am super happy to go into anesthesia. One of our professional publications had an article on alien abduction. It related to sleep paralysis. Anesthesia is such a broad field. I could specialize in knowledge of the vocal cords or of consciousness. Isn’t that neat?
I’m in love with these kind of old style TV science demonstrations.
We’re in love with this gif.
A pair of enantiomers is distinguished by the direction in which, when dissolved in solution, they rotate in polarized light
(Source: venusprobe)
The only thing anesthesia can count on in regard to the future of machine labor is the fear that people do not want a robot to come at them and stick a tube down their throat.
(Source: infoneer-pulse)
10-12% of the brain is composed of lipids.
Elective surgery with a reduced functional capacity caries an 18% risk of mortality. That is greater than a game of Russian roulette.
One of my greatest lessons during grade school was in art class. The teacher covered the lower half of pictures of faces and we tried to see if we could tell if the person was smiling or sad ect by their eyes. We ended with the Mona Lisa, whose eyes do the greatest part of the smiling of the face. While in the OR I am reminded of this constantly. Everyone can see your expression, even when you have on your mask.
(via fuckyeahbiomedicina)
Doctors Day celebrates one of the greatest miracles of medicine, anesthesia. One second someone is awake, the next they are asleep and pain free. It was an American discovery. Crawford W. Long, M.D., of Jefferson, GA, administered the first ether anesthetic for surgery on March 30, 1842. However, the first successful demonstration of ether anesthesia occurred with an inhaler much like this one at Massachusetts General Hospital on October 16, 1846. William Thomas Green Morton, a dentist in Boston Massachusetts, was the person who administered the ether for the historic occasion. News of the event spread rapidly and within a year of his demonstration dozens of European inhalers had been invented and patented.
