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Erica Frenkel The universal anesthesia machine

Until anesthesia, the absence of sensation.

So part of it is like a baseball glove.

They can be put in a glove compartment, OK.

My favorite word in German is the word for glove .

Anesthesia gave surgeons the freedom to operate.

And then many more steps later, baby steps, they'd be in the room, they'd have a leather glove like a welder's glove on, and they'd eventually touch the snake.

In this hospital, there is one person qualified to deliver anesthesia, and she's qualified because she has 12, maybe 18 months of training in anesthesia.

This was done under local anesthesia, as an outpatient.

The second time was a procedure that involved local anesthesia.

In the background there is a very sophisticated anesthesia machine.

35 million surgeries are attempted every year without safe anesthesia.

Put out your Magic Window and your erasing glove, and rub it like this.

It's what we call a perfect fit of shape complimentarity, or hand in glove.

It's just a reality of anesthesia. The lungs can be paralyzed.

They have a really cool anesthesia simulation lab out in Baltimore.

So I've talked a lot about anesthesia, and I tend to do that.

It's practiced, it's no anesthesia, it's a rusty old knife, and it was difficult.

Anesthesia gave them the freedom to experiment, to start to delve deeper into the body.

I got him to come with me anesthesia tech come with me from the U.K.

What if you're in surgery and the power goes out? No lights, no oxygen and your anesthesia stops flowing. It happens constantly in hospitals throughout the world, turning routine procedures into tragedies. Erica Frenkel demos one solution the universal anesthesia machine.

And actually, it's the model that we expect to work for delivering anesthesia in these environments.

Well we have a whole O.R. team, general anesthesia, nurses, and another doctor across from me.

I'm a senior resident in anesthesia in intensive care at the University Hospital of the West Indies.

And we could take a very simple view and say, well, it is that which we lose when we fall into deep sleep without dreams, or when we go under anesthesia, and it is what we regain when we recover from sleep or from anesthesia.

The person who's spraying the O.C. spray is wearing a rubber glove to make sure they don't get contaminated and so on.

It takes about an hour and a half to two hours, depending on where it's done, under general anesthesia.

But what is exactly that stuff that we lose under anesthesia, or when we are in deep, dreamless sleep?

And, so, very quickly, Bob can just get one puncture, local anesthesia, and do this harvest as an outpatient.

But the computer should not just be the glove of the hand the hand should really be the driver of the computing power.

We believe that this draft convention fits hand in glove with the culture of peace, and we hope that it will be adopted unanimously.

I came to the Heart Institute in 2006, as part of my elective in my anesthesia and intensive care program.

Essentially, to deliver anesthesia, you want as pure oxygen as possible, because eventually you're going to dilute it essentially with the gas.

Make sure you keep your magic crayons handy, your Winky Dink crayons and your erasing glove, because you'll be using them during the show to draw like that.

We had the pause points immediately before anesthesia is given, immediately before the knife hits the skin, immediately before the patient leaves the room.

Because we were in the age before anesthesia, the agony of the patient is really as much of the public spectacle as the surgery itself.

In 1941, the burnished patina of an all American baseball glove inspired the founder of Coach to create a new collection of handbags from the same luxuriously soft gloved hand leather.

In my view, they are misdemeanors. Against them you have to set what former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers calls Greenspan s golden glove performance at avoiding and minimizing recessions during his years at the Fed.

Now one of the major bottlenecks that we've found that's sort of preventing both the access in the first place and the safety of those surgeries that do happen is anesthesia.

Hopefully you can appreciate the device there curving through the patient's body and removing the patient's bone marrow, instead of with 200 punctures, with just a single puncture under local anesthesia.

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And I had to go and ride in the rodeo that night, so I didn't want them to put me under anesthesia, or whatever you call it. And so they sewed my face up.

And what he came up with was this guy, the prototype for the Universal Anesthesia Machine a machine that would work and anesthetize his patients no matter the circumstances that his hospital had to offer.

He went to work every day in an operating theater like this one, trying to deliver anesthesia and teach others how to do so using that same equipment that became so unreliable, and frankly unsafe, in his hospital.