This week we went to the
Anesthesia Museum. It was a small but neat museum, especially since it’s one of
very few of its kind in the entire world. It was interesting seeing the history
of anesthesiology after having shadowed a modern anesthesiologist. It was also
crazy to think about how at one point pain was considered to be a necessary
part of the healing process. I can’t imagine performing any of the high
precision surgeries that are done today on a conscious patient. Not just from
them moving but the physiological responses such as accelerated heart rate and
tensing muscles. Ventilation would have been unheard of as well which means any
surgery that needed to be done inside the thorax was simply not possible.
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