Germs, Antisepsis, & Asepsis
This theory established that microorganisms cause infection.
What is germ theory?
This nurse emphasized cleanliness, hygiene, and ventilation during the Crimean War.
Who is Florence Nightingale?
This anesthetic was commonly administered via a cloth soaked and held over the nose.
What is chloroform?
Which nurse anesthetist was deemed the Mother of Anesthesia?
Who is Alice Magaw?
The practice of preventing contamination during surgery rather than killing germs.
What is asepsis?
This person publicly demonstrated the first anesthetic?
Who is Dr. William Morton?
This complication occurred when ether-soaked sponges limited airflow.
What is ether pneumonia or suffocation?
The hospital where Alice Magaw practiced and gained national recognition.
What is the Mayo Clinic?
This method of anesthesia, popularized in the U.S., proved superior to soaking clothes in ether/chloroform due to its decreased incidence of anesthesia-induced pneumonia.
What is the drop method?
This nurse anesthetist, and founder of the AANA, set the quest to explore nurse anesthesia history and put a name to the first nurse anesthetist to remove the “veil of mystery.”
Who is Agatha Hodgins?
In the beginning, anesthesia was often administered by this least experienced member of the medical staff.
Who is a junior intern or novice physician?
The anesthetic Magaw believed was safer for patients despite being harder to administer.
What is ether?
“Surgery was transformed from an act of desperation to a scientific method of dealing with illness.” (p. 19). What two developments transformed surgery into a viable and expanding medical discipline?
What is the adoption of anesthesia and asepsis/infection control?
This group of religious sisters originated in Germany, later spreading roots to Illinois where they helped to establish St. John’s Hospital and trained some of the earliest nurse anesthetists in the administration of chloroform.
Who are the Hospital Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis.
This unethical practice involved surgeons charging patients for expert anesthesia while secretly using an inexperienced student instead, all the while, keeping almost all the fees for themselves.
What is ghost anesthesia?
As evidenced by her published works, Magaw delivered over what number of anesthetics?
What is 14,000?