Postoperative respiratory failure: an anaesthetic hazard?
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The ideal anaesthetist would be a modest assistant who provides sound but not timeconsuming or delaying advice before operation, who transforms the patient into a perfect medium for the exercise of his talents without in any way obtruding upon his activities, and then dissolves into the aether leaving behind a patient who is both none the worse for the anaesthesia and cured by the surgical procedure.Abstract:
Since the state of anaesthesia possesses no intrinsic merit and as far as the patient is concerned merely comes between him and the real business of surgery, the ideal anaesthetic technique would be one of which he was totally unaware. It would have no unpleasant preliminaries or sequelae and certainly would be devoid of all hazards, irrespective of the state of health of the patient, or of the planned operation. For the surgeon, perhaps the ideal anaesthetist would be a modest assistant who provides sound but not timeconsuming or delaying advice before operation, who transforms the patient into a perfect medium for the exercise of his talents without in any way obtruding upon his activities, and then dissolves into the aether, leaving behind a patient who is both none the worse for the anaesthesia and cured by the surgical procedure.read more
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