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Use of Oximetry in Dental Out-patients Undergoing Controlled Sedation and General Anaesthesia

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Abstract

The first recorded general anaesthetic for the extraction of a tooth took place in North America in 1846, when a dental surgeon named Horace Wells received nitrous oxide for the removal of a tooth. He received the anaesthetic whilst seated upright and was almost certainly subjected to hypoxia. Regrettably this technique of nitrous oxide administration associated with varying degrees of oxygen limitation persists today.

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  1. J. A. Thornton
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  1. Research Department of Anaesthetics, The Royal College of Surgeons of England, 35-43 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London, WC2A 3PN, England

    James P. Payne MB, ChB, FFARCS, MD (Symposium Chairman, British Oxygen Professor of Anaesthetics and Director, Consultant Anaesthetist to the St. Peter’s Hospitals and The London Hospital) (Symposium Chairman, British Oxygen Professor of Anaesthetics and Director, Consultant Anaesthetist to the St. Peter’s Hospitals and The London Hospital)

  2. Department of Anesthesia, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, 513 Parnassus Avenue, California, 94143, USA

    J. W. Severinghaus MD, FFARCS

  3. Anaesthetics Unit, The London Hospital Medical College, UK

    James P. Payne MB, ChB, FFARCS, MD (Symposium Chairman, British Oxygen Professor of Anaesthetics and Director, Consultant Anaesthetist to the St. Peter’s Hospitals and The London Hospital) (Symposium Chairman, British Oxygen Professor of Anaesthetics and Director, Consultant Anaesthetist to the St. Peter’s Hospitals and The London Hospital)

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Thornton, J.A. (1986). Use of Oximetry in Dental Out-patients Undergoing Controlled Sedation and General Anaesthesia. In: Payne, J.P., Severinghaus, J.W. (eds) Pulse Oximetry. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-1423-9_17

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