Safety as We Watch: Anaesthesia in Ireland 1847-1998 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781913934231)

The first operation under anesthesia in Ireland took place 175 years ago when John MacDonnell, a surgeon at the Richmond Hospital, Dublin amputated the arm of Mary Kane on January 1st 1847. This occurred less than three months after the first public demonstration of the use of ether for painless surgery in Boston. Over the next 150 years, anesthesia was to evolve from an apprentice-based craft to become a highly technical specialty, integral not just in the operating theater but also to a wide range of other medical settings.

The book, in the first published history of the specialty in Ireland, describes the personalities, institutions and innovators who led the development of anesthesia in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, from 1847 to the foundation of the College of Anaesthetists of Ireland in 1998.

Author: Declan Warde, Joseph Tracey, John Cahill
ISBN-10: 1913934233
ISBN-13: 9781913934231
Publisher: Wordwell Books
Language: English
Published: 05/04/2023
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover