Lectures on general anaesthetics in dentistry, advocating painless dental operations by the use of nitrous oxid, nitrous oxid and oxygen, chloroform, ether, ethyl chloride and somnoform . While a good assistant is essential to success withpure nitrous oxid, with nitrous oxid and oxygen it isimperative. Hundreds of nitrous oxid appliances havebeen discarded, others literally thrown out of the officeby discouraged and often disgusted operators, becauseof failure to get satisfactory results, the supposed faultnot being with either the nitrous oxid and oxygen orwith the appliance, but mostly becau
Lectures on general anaesthetics in dentistry, advocating painless dental operations by the use of nitrous oxid, nitrous oxid and oxygen, chloroform, ether, ethyl chloride and somnoform . While a good assistant is essential to success withpure nitrous oxid, with nitrous oxid and oxygen it isimperative. Hundreds of nitrous oxid appliances havebeen discarded, others literally thrown out of the officeby discouraged and often disgusted operators, becauseof failure to get satisfactory results, the supposed faultnot being with either the nitrous oxid and oxygen orwith the appliance, but mostly because of lack of in-telligent assistance. All preliminary arrangements having been made,the patient is now ready to be anaesthetized. The Obag should be filled almost full of oxygen and theNO bag about two-thirds full of nitrous oxid. Thereshould really be considerable tension on these rubberbags, but not enough to explode them. Place the in- 150 General Anccsthctics in Dentistry. haler over the mouth and nose with the anaestheticshut off. Have the patient breathe deeply and evenlytwo or three times to test the valves and to see thatthe adjustment is such as to exclude all air. You. NO. i: LENNOX STAND. These cylinders can be placed at some distance from the chair,in another room if desired, and connected with the appliance bymeans of small rubber tubing. judge by the sound of the valves as to whether theyare in good working order. Satisfied on this point, theanjesthetic may now be admitted. The first few inhala-tions should be of pure nitrous oxid. As soon as duski- General Anccsthetics in Dentistr^\ 151 ness of the face is observed, turn the oxygen indicatorto 1 at first, then 2, and as the anaesthesia ad-vances, to 4 or 6 gradually. If you should begin
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