We re back in the Dark Ages.

Erica Frenkel The universal anesthesia machine

Anesthesiologists, surgeons are waiting around.

By the way... I shall want a barrel of this, well drugged.

Anesthesiology and critical care look at that bag.

You look fine. Has the anaesthetic worn off?

The nurses, anesthesiologist, the surgeon, all the assistants are waiting around.

They have a really cool anesthesia simulation lab out in Baltimore.

Now, have a look at that. That's the anesthesiology machine.

Anesthetic wears off. The patient feels pain.

Right now they're becoming anesthetized.

In this hospital, there is one person qualified to deliver anesthesia, and she's qualified because she has 12, maybe 18 months of training in anesthesia.

The second time was a procedure that involved local anesthesia.

She's been under sedation. She's just coming out of it.

like, having an operation before anesthetics was not fun.

Until anesthesia, the absence of sensation.

He was the chief of anesthesiology in a hospital in Malawi, a teaching hospital.

I think we'd better put him under drugs for a few days.

In this hospital, there is one person qualified to deliver anesthesia, and she's qualified because she has 12, maybe 18 months of training in anesthesia.

I got him to come with me anesthesia tech come with me from the U.K.

And you may think that anesthetics work by sending you into some deep sleep, or by blocking your receptors so that you don't feel pain, but in fact most anesthetics don't work that way.

It's practiced, it's no anesthesia, it's a rusty old knife, and it was difficult.

Because we were in the age before anesthesia, the agony of the patient is really as much of the public spectacle as the surgery itself.

Anesthesia gave surgeons the freedom to operate.

I'm a senior resident in anesthesia in intensive care at the University Hospital of the West Indies.

Nursing activities during this period focus on safety, infection prevention, and physiological response to anesthesia.

And actually, it's the model that we expect to work for delivering anesthesia in these environments.

Essentially, to deliver anesthesia, you want as pure oxygen as possible, because eventually you're going to dilute it, essentially, with the gas.

Mood modifiers have been used from time immemorial caffeine, alcohol, nicotine, immune system enhancement, vision enhancement, anesthetics we take that very much for granted, but just think about how great progress that is

I came to the Heart Institute in 2006, as part of my elective in my anesthesia and intensive care program.

And we could take a very simple view and say, well, it is that which we lose when we fall into deep sleep without dreams, or when we go under anesthesia, and it is what we regain when we recover from sleep or from anesthesia.

After the procedure was approved by anesthesiologist Stanley Deutsch, formerly Head of the Department of Anaesthesiology of the Oklahoma University Medical School, the Reverend Bill Wiseman introduced the method into the Oklahoma legislature, where it passed and was quickly adopted (Title 22, Section 1014(A)).

We had the pause points immediately before anesthesia is given, immediately before the knife hits the skin, immediately before the patient leaves the room.

Mood modifiers have been used from time immemorial caffeine, alcohol, nicotine, immune system enhancement, vision enhancement, anesthetics we take that very much for granted, but just think about how great progress that is like, having an operation before anesthetics was not fun.

Essentially, to deliver anesthesia, you want as pure oxygen as possible, because eventually you're going to dilute it essentially with the gas.

Because we were in the age before anesthesia, the agony of the patient is really as much of the public spectacle as the surgery itself.

After anesthesia, the patient's inability to react to movements may damage joints and muscle groups.

Monkeys were implanted with sensors to measure vital signs, and many were under anesthesia during launch.

He went to work every day in an operating theater like this one, trying to deliver anesthesia and teach others how to do so using that same equipment that became so unreliable, and frankly unsafe, in his hospital.

Because you didn't have to call the anesthesiologist all the time, they could put more kids through the machine in a day.

And in addition to the foregoing... the narcosynthesis revealed the existence... of earlier factors in the patient's life... directly connected with the root causes of her present condition.

But what is exactly that stuff that we lose under anesthesia, or when we are in deep, dreamless sleep?

Now one of the major bottlenecks that we've found that's sort of preventing both the access in the first place and the safety of those surgeries that do happen is anesthesia.

Most facilities require that patients have a person with them to help them home afterwards (again, depending on the sedation method used).

Out of anesthetic, he had let them know that he wanted to be there, and he had given me about a two percent chance of living.