THROAT OPERATIONS

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 16, 14 August 1928, Page 7

THROAT OPERATIONS

A NEW PROCESS FOR • ANAESTHESIA. TORONTO. Dr. Ralph Hargrave, of Toronto, who for some years has been developing a new method of anaesithesia which greatly reduce s the operations, has given the Congress of Anaesthetists of North America the result of his experiments in intratracheal nitrous oxide-oxygen anaesthesia. The method developed by Dr. Hargrave eliminates all post-operative ' nausea and vomiting, and the patient becomes conscious as soon as the operation is finished. Following a slight anaesthetisation of the patient through a mask over the nose, which lias the effect of relax- , ing the muscles, a special tube is passed down the trachea and the patient inhales and exhales a lowpressure anaesthetic direct to and ( from the lungs. As explained by Dr. Hargrave, the absence of ether lessens the possibility uf pneumonic complications, and in cases where the patient has a weak heart, is diabetic, or is constitutionally weakened in other ways, the absence of nausea and vomiting is of incalculable value.