Allergie et immunologie
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On October 16, 1846, the first public demonstration of etherization, at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, illustrated the rise of Inhalational Anaesthesia. Pioneers were: Hickman, Wells, Morton, Davy and Long. ⋯ Thereafter, the development of new molecules (cocaine, hexobarbital) which can be administered by others ways (spinal puncture, intravenous injections) allowed new methods of anaesthesia to be achieved. Thus, three successive periods have illustrated the Story of Anaesthesia: Inhalational Anaesthesia (1844), Local Anaesthesia (1860), Intravenous Anaesthesia (1932).
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Allergie et immunologie · May 1998
[Postoperative allergic complications: the role of the anesthetist in conducting the immuno-allergic investigation].
When peri-anaesthesia anaphylactic and/or anaphylactoid reactions occur, anaesthetist is the first investigator: the quality of immuno-allergological investigations depends on these initial investigational procedures. We have used sample kits for several years in order to make easier the immediate investigation. ⋯ The use of sample kits allowed an early diagnosis approach, confirmed by skin tests. Diagnosis should be thought closely between anaesthetists and immunologists for investigations.