Practical Points in Anesthesia

Chapter 19: Minor Anesthesia with Ethyl Chloride.

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Practical techniques for inducing and maintaining inhalation anesthesia with chloroform, ether, and anaesthol are presented, including mask configuration and gradual dropwise induction. Cautious administration and morphine premedication are recommended, with respiratory patterns and reflexes used to judge the surgical plane. Recognition and management of complications—cardiac and respiratory collapse, obstructed breathing from crowding, and reflex responses to surgical manipulation—are discussed. Airway measures such as breathing tubes, intubation, jaw and tongue maneuvers, oxygen, and artificial respiration are outlined. Advice on maintaining depth, when to stimulate, sequencing agents for different procedures, awakening, and postoperative distress completes the practical guidance.

Minor Anesthesia with Ethyl
Chloride.

Office Anesthesia

In surgical office work, there is occasionally the need of a rapid and fleeting anesthesia which does not necessitate the use of a cumbersome apparatus for its induction. In these cases, in place of chloroform, anaesthol or ether, the ethyl chloride spray can be used on the Schimmelbusch mask already described. It produces a prompt anesthesia during which an abscess can be opened, washed and dressed without causing the patient the slightest pain.