David S. Sheridan (10 July 1908, Brooklyn – 29 April 2004, Argyle, New York) was the inventor of the "disposable" plastic endotracheal tube.David was the second of six sons of Adolf and Anna Sockolof, who immigrated to the United States from Russia. He changed his name from Sockolof to Sheridan in 1939. He attended school until 8th grade when he went...
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Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Boyle's machine
In medicine Boyle's machine is the name given to the continuous flow apparatus used by anesthesiologists to administer general anesthesia to patients (human or veterinary) in operation theaters.Medical grade oxygen, nitrous oxide and inhalation anaesthetics can be administered to patients, who are either breathing spontaneously or who have been paralysed...
bispectral index (BIS)
A bispectral index (BIS) monitor is a neurophysiological monitoring device which continually analyses a patient's electroencephalograms during general anaesthesia to assess the level of consciousness during anaesthesia. The "depth of anaesthesia" is...
Anaesthetic vaporiser
Historically, ether (the first volatile agent) was first used by John Snow's inhaler (1847) but was superseded by the use of chloroform (1848). Ether then slowly made a revival (1862–1872) with regular use via Curt Schimmelbusch's "mask", a narcosis...
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