Menu
Sign In Search Podcasts Charts People & Topics Add Podcast API Pricing
Podcast Image

Beyond The Mask: Innovation & Opportunities For CRNAs

Ep 167: In Search of the First Anesthetists

10 Feb 2022

Description

The history of the nurse anesthesia profession is a bit murky as records weren’t kept well through the years as medicine and healthcare progressed, but there are opinions on who the first anesthetist was. Today we’ll examine the most likely candidates with our historians Nancy Bruton-Maree, CRNA, and Sandy Ouellette, CRNA, and try to determine who can claim the title of the real first anesthetist.   Read more: http://beyondthemaskpodcast.com    Get the CE certificate here: https://beyondthemaskpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Beyond-the-Mask-CE-Cert-FILLABLE.pdf   What we discuss in this episode:  3:00 – Background on this topic 6:36 – History books on anesthesia 10:21 – Historical information 15:08 – Humphry Davy 16:16 – Crawford Long   17:51 – Horace Wells   19:27 – William Morton 22:35 – James Simpson 23:06 – John Snow 28:39 – The real first anesthetist according to AANA 33:56 – Who was in the earliest American hospitals?   38:08 – Disputes   40:44 – The role nuns played 42:58 – The evolution of names for anesthetists 46:32 – Sandy’s opinion on first anesthetists 48:21 – Final thoughts   Resources mentioned on the show:  The Wondrous Story of Anesthesia The Etherist Podcast The Global Voice for Nurse Anesthesia - IFNA (1989-2021)  

Audio
Featured in this Episode

No persons identified in this episode.

Transcription

This episode hasn't been transcribed yet

Help us prioritize this episode for transcription by upvoting it.

0 upvotes
🗳️ Sign in to Upvote

Popular episodes get transcribed faster

Comments

There are no comments yet.

Please log in to write the first comment.