Nitrous oxide-oxygen-ether anaesthesia. No. 3.

Date:
[1944]
  • Film

About this work

Description

Shows the apparatus designed to deliver continuous flow of nitrous oxide and oxygen. Ether is shown being added to the mixture of gases in various quantities. Diagrams are used throughout with short sequences of anaesthetised patients in between. The film is structured in parts, as follows; Preparation of Apparatus (showing correct flow meters), Induction, Introduction of Oxygen, then Ether, Maintenance. The End.

Publication/Creation

[Place of publication not identified], s.n.], [1944]

Physical description

2 film reels; (Parts 1&2 and Part 3; 24:23 mins combined): sd., b&w.; 16mm.

Notes

Duplicate film item with ICI003.
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.

Creator/production credits

Direction by Margaret Thomson, Photography by A.E. Jeakins, Diagrams W.M. Larkins & Co. Produced by Realist Film Unit. Made with the co-operation of the Department of Anaesthetics, Westminister Hospital, London.

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    4184F (Parts 1&2)
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    4184F (Reel 2 Part 3)
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