The signs and stages of anaesthesia. No. 1.

Date:
1944
  • Film

About this work

Description

A brief sequence of a female patient being anaesthetised is shown. Most of the film looks at the theory of the stages of anaesthesia using Guedel's chart using diagrams. It is the third stage when surgery can commence (this is in turn subdivided into planes). The fourth stage is respiratory failure and potentially death. Within each stage respiration is noted and the action of the diaphram and the thorax. The theory is shown in practice as a male patient is shown anaesthetised. The patient's breathing is observed even when covered in surgical gowns. Reflexes relating to the eye are demonstrated. The action of pre-medication on the size of the pupil is discussed. The end.

Publication/Creation

United Kingdom : ICI, 1944.

Physical description

1 film reel (23 mins): sound., b&w.; 16mm.

Notes

Part of the film collection comprising of 55 items donated by Nuffield Department of Anaesthetics, Oxford, to the Wellcome Trust in 2008. In 1937, Lord Nuffield established a clinical chair of anaesthesia in Oxford amidst some controversy that anaesthesia was even an academic discipline. The collection is a mixture of clinical and educational films made or held by the department to supplement their teaching dating from the late 1930s onwards.
Duplicate film item; see also BMA522 and 4208F.

Creator/production credits

Direction by Margaret Thomson, Photography by A.E. Jeakins, Diagrams by Diagram Films Ltd. Produced by Realist Film Unit. Made with the co-operation of the Department of Anaesthetics, Westminister Hospital, London.

Copyright note

ICI Pharmaceutical Division

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    ICI001
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