The Oxford miniature vaporizer.
- Date:
- [1960]
- Videos
About this work
Description
This is a promotional film about the OMV (Oxford Miniature Vaporizer), a piece of anaesthetic apparatus designed in Oxford. The vaporizer is charged with liquid Halothane. Graphics show the circulation of the anaesthestic agent in the OMV. The vaporizer is shown in operation with the Oxford breathing bellows. A 7 year old child is shown under anaesthesia. The OMV is demonstrated - it can be readily added to existing equipment. It is shown in dentistry (with nitrous-oxide). Anaesthesia is induced in a man by ether and then maintained with Halothane. The EMO inhaler is also shown in use. Scenes in the operating theatre. The narrator states that the OMV is a versatile apparatus
Publication/Creation
[Place of publication not identified], s.n.], [1960]
Physical description
1 Digibeta (10 mins) : sound, black and white; PAL.
1 VHS (10 mins) : sound, black and white; PAL.
1 DVD (10 mins) : sound, black and white; PAL.
1 VHS (10 mins) : sound, black and white; PAL.
1 DVD (10 mins) : sound, black and white; PAL.
Contributors
Notes
Conservation and access copies made 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.
Creator/production credits
A Penland Production. Produced by the Royal Society of Medicine Film Unit, Directed by Esmond Wilson FRPS, Photography by Stephen I. Halliday.
Copyright note
Nuffield
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Where to find it
Location Access Closed stores4168SNote
Location Status Access Closed stores4168D