Anesthesiologists have been called to the frontlines of this COVID-19 war for a vital and dangerous job. From intubating ventilator tubes into Covid patients to treating the most critical cases admitted to intensive care units (ICUs), these lesser-known doctors have accepted this challenging assignment with a shortage of equipment and at the risk of their own health.
On October 16, 1846, an American dentist William Morton, used sulfuric ether as an anaesthetic for a surgery for the very first time and set the course for the development of modern anaesthesia as we know it. He administered it by inhalation to Edward Gilbert Abbott for the removal of a tumour in his neck […]