Thursday, November 18, 2010

Rabbit activities

I loves me some old timey research publications:

"following aspiration of neutral liquid...the animals go through a brief phase of labored respirations and cyanosis, but within a few hours they are apparently back to normal, able to carry on rabbit activities uninhibited."

"This danger could be readily avoided by emptying the stomach prior to the administration of a general anesthesia. The time-honored finger in the throat method is always available, but the oral administration of a warm alkaline solution would in all probability produce the same desired effect."

Mendelson C.L. The aspiration of stomach contents into the lungs during obstetric anesthesia. Am J Obstet Gynecol 1946; 52: 191-205.

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