Review article
https://doi.org/10.21860/medflum2023_292448
The History of Neuroanesthesia
Tamara Murselović
; Klinički bolnički centar Zagreb, Klinika za anesteziologiju, reanimatologiju i intenzivnu medicinu i terapiju boli, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Nataša Kovač
; Klinički bolnički centar Zagreb, Klinika za anesteziologiju, reanimatologiju i intenzivnu medicinu i terapiju boli, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Abstract
The development of neuroanesthesia is inextricably linked with the development of neurosurgery. The realisation that neuroanesthesia has its specifics, due to very nature of neurosurgery, as a separate field of anesthesia, evolved at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. Only with the advencement of technology and science, especially in the second half of the 20th century, did neuroanesthesia reach its full potential. The clinical profession has gone from realizing that physiological parameters (pulse and pressure) should be continuously monitored and recorded thanks to dr. Harvey Cushing, to monitoring the effects of anesthestics on EEG, intracranial pressure, cerebral blod flow, and brain metabolism. Thanks to a nummber of top experts, such as Albert Faulconer, John Mitchenfelder, James Cottrel and Roy Cucchiara, neuroanesthesia has become a subspeciality within anesthesiology,with its societies, its journals and professional gartherings.
Keywords
anesthesia; chloroform; genomics; intracranial pressure; nitrous oxide
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292448
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Publication date:
1.3.2023.
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