An improved method of general anesthesia in head-surgery by means of glass nasal tubes / by Joseph E. Lumbard.

  • Lumbard, Joseph Edward, 1865-
Date:
1910
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    y Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons Libsaty AN IMPROVED METHOD OF GENERAL ANES- THESIA IN HEAD-SURGERY BY MEANS OF GLASS NASAL TUBES * JOSEPH E. LUMBARD, M.D. Anesthetist to the Harlem Hospital, the General Memorial Hospital and the Lying-in Hospital; Fellow New York Academy of Medicine, etc. NEW YORK Anesthesia for head-surgery certainly presents diffi- culties for the anesthetist. In order to insure greater safety to the patient and less interference of the anes- thetist with the surgeon during an operation on the head, many inhalers have been produced. Nasal tubes for such purposes of anesthesia were introduced in 190b by Dr. Edwin Pynchon of Chicago and Dr. Stuart B. Blakely of New York independently. Since one of these instruments allows the entrance of too much air and the other does not provide sufficient air, I have devised an instrument which experience has proved to be more practical than any other on the market. My apparatus consists of two glass tubes (Fig. 1, A and B) so bent that each will properly fit a nostril. These tips are connected with the mechanism which sup- plies the anesthetic vapor by means of two soft rubber tubes (Fig. 1, C), joined together at the supply end by ;i glass Y, which also connects them with the supply tube (C) itself. They are furnished in three different sizes in order to make the apparatus adapted to nostrils of different shapes. Furthermore, the apparatus which I use for continu- ing the anesthesia is different from that employed hy either Dr. Pynchon or Dr. Blakely. I induce anes- thesia in the usual way and then introduce the glass * Demonstrated before the Harlem Medical Association, May 14 1910, and the Valentine Mott Medical Society, May 24, 1910. oi Ph •air-i**- .