Minutes of evidence relating to anaesthetics : at the Home Office, Whitehall.

  • Departmental Committee on Coroners.
Date:
1910
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    (2) In the case of every death under an anaesthetic the medical certificate of death should specify the fact whether the ansesthetic was the actual cause of death or not. (3) No general respirable anaesthetic should be adminis- tered by any person who is not a registered medical or dental practitioner. (4) Registered dentists should be confined to the use of ^ nitrous oxide gas for dental operations, and should not employ the general respirable anaesthetics of longer duration. (5) Intra-spinal anaesthesia should be practised only by registered medical practitioners. (6) Practical and theoretical instruction in the adminis- tration of anaesthetics should be an essential part of the medical curriculum. (7) Such instruction in the administration of nitrous oxide gas should be an essential part of the dental curriculum. (8) In the case of any death under an anaesthetic in a hospital or other similar public institution, there should be a scientific investigation into the actual cause of death conducted by the authorities of the institution. ^ (9) A small standing scientific Committee on Anaesthetics should be instituted under the authority of the Home Office. We have the honour to be, Sir, Your obedient servants, M. D. CHALMERS, (Chairman). MALCOLM MORRIS. H. H. SHEPHARD. T. A. BRAMSDON. W. H. WILLCOX. J. F, MoYLAN (Secretary), 18th March, 1910. Ferguson & Sons, Printers, Ridgway Gates, Bolton.