Harold Griffith : The Evolution of Modern Anaesthesia

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Harold Griffith : The Evolution of Modern Anaesthesia
Abstract
The Montreal-born Dr. Harold Randall Griffith (1894-1985), a graduate from McGill University (1922) and the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia (1923), was a world-renowned innovator in the practice of anesthesia. He became the Chief of Anesthesia at the Homeopathic Hospital in Montreal (later re-named the Queen Elizabeth Hospital) in 1923 and held that position until 1959, continuing to give anesthesia at the hospital until 1966. He was also a professor at McGill's Department of Anesthesia, holding the Chair of the Department from 1951 to 1956. He introduced the use of ethylene (in 1923) and cyclopropane (in 1933) into Canadian anaesthetic practice. The outstanding achievement of his career was the introduction of muscle relaxants to the practice of anaesthesia on January 23, 1942, when he used curare for the first time during anesthesia to produce muscle relaxation. He organized and became the first President of the Society of Canadian Anaesthetists, which in 1943 become the Canadian Anaesthetists' Society. McGill University established the Harold R. Griffith Research Chair in Anesthesia in his honour in 1992.
Place
Toronto, ON
Publisher
Hannah Institute & Dundurn Press
Date
1992
# of Pages
128p.
Language
en
ISBN
1-55002-155-9
Citation
Bodman, Richard, and Deirdre Gillies. Harold Griffith : The Evolution of Modern Anaesthesia. Toronto, ON: Hannah Institute & Dundurn Press, 1992.
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