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Anesthesia for Renal Transplantation (Hardcover, 1987 ed.)
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Anesthesia for Renal Transplantation (Hardcover, 1987 ed.)
Series: Developments in Critical Care Medicine and Anaesthesiology, 14
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This treatise commemorates the 32nd anniversary of the first
successful allogenic kidney transplant in a human being and the
beginning of a con tinuing challenge for well over a generation of
anesthesiologists. If compari sons can be permitted, this
epoch-making event can be ranked with the first pulmonary lobectomy
and subsequently the initial ligation of a patent ductus arteriosus
in the late 1930s when thoracic and cardiac surgery began. Was it
merely a coincidence that brought these events to the fore so close
upon one another after many years of ideation and frustration? Not
so, according to Lewis Thomas, for this was the time of medicine's
second revolution-its transformation from an empirical art into a
powerfully effective science. The remote Galenic conception of
disease with its emphasis on disturbed body humors was about to be
supplanted by effective therapeutics, as signified by the
introduction of the sulfonamides and antibiotics for the specific
treatment of infection. Anesthesiology had been dormant up to that
era, still relying upon a few agents, more or less utilized from
the beginning, and purveyed by a handful of specialists who had not
yet begun to ask the scientific questions necessary for their
maturation into a bona fide discipline. However, anesthesiology was
in evitably caught in the ferment, for as Peter Caws observed, "It
serves to re mind us that the development of science is a step-wise
process: nobody starts from scratch and nobody gets very far ahead
of the rest."
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