Signs of anaesthesia including controlled respiration.

This is a clinical film showing the induction of anaesthesia on a patient using the open drop ether technique. Respiration in the patient is aided. There are no eye movements and the pupil is dilated proving that complete anaesthesia has been achieved.

Segment 1 A patient is anaesthetised using the open drop technique (drops of the induction agent are sprayed onto a mask). The patient is shown breathing deeply. The next sequence is a medium close-up of the patient unconscious; the lid of one eye is raised to show how dilated it is. Breathing is aided with a mask. These sequences are repeated. Time start: 00:00:00:00 Time end: 00:05:19:10 Length: 00:5:19:10

Material from the film collection comprising of 55 items donated by Nuffield Department of Anaesthetics, Oxford, to the Wellcome Trust in 2008. In 1937, Lord Nuffield established a clinical chair of anaesthesia in Oxford amidst some controversy that anaesthesia was even an academic discipline. The collection is a mixture of clinical and educational films made or held by the department to supplement their teaching dating from the late 1930s onwards.