Morphia as a total anaesthetic
digital file Black & White Silent 1940s 6:58
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Summary: This film demonstrates the method of maintaining anaesthesia using morphine as the agent on a female patient undergoing an abdominal operation. Induction is carefully monitored and then surgery commences. 1 segment.
Title number: 17945
LSA ID: LSA/21102
Description: Segment 1 This film starts with a smiling female patient ready for surgery. By the technique of stop frame animation, details of the patient's response to morphine appear on a blackboard. She is briefly roused by having her cheek slapped, the slackness of her jaw is tested and her eyes opened. She remains unconscious. Intertitle: Induction has taken 2 1/2 hours. An operation on her abdomen is performed. Her respiration is noted. The End. Time start: 00:00:00:00 Time end: 00:06:58:20 Length: 00:06:58:20
Further information: Material from 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.
Keywords: Anesthesia; Anesthesia -- history; Analgesia
Locations: United Kingdom
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