Creator: Dr. Reeja Tharu
Keywords: intravenous injections, pulse oximeter, anesthesia development, anesthetic management

Written by Dr. Reeja Tharu, M.Phil.,Ph.D
Medically Reviewed by The Medindia Medical Review Team on Sep 08, 2014

Recent developments in anesthesia

In the 1900s intravenous injections of various anesthetic agent were administered which was very convenient for both the patient and the doctor. The discovery of capnograph and pulse oximeter resulted in the marked reduced the mortality rates due to anesthesia.

Anesthesia today is very safe with the mortality risk rate of 1 in 250000. With continuous and sustained improvements in anesthetic management and development of sophisticated monitoring systems, surgeries have now been pushed to a new dimension, than when it started ago, several years ago.

Published on Sep 08, 2014
Last Updated on Sep 08, 2014