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The Polio Epidemic
Author(s) -
I M Cass
Publication year - 1975
Publication title -
acta anaesthesiologica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.738
H-Index - 107
eISSN - 1399-6576
pISSN - 0001-5172
DOI - 10.1111/j.1399-6576.1975.tb05441.x
Subject(s) - medicine , citation , poliomyelitis , library science , pediatrics , computer science
One of the most perhaps the most dramatic clinical experience in my professional life was my participation in the polio epidemic in Copenhagen in 1952. The anaesthesiologists’ management of the polio patients came to have importance for the future development of the speciality in Copenhagen, since it initiated the formation of intensive therapy units, later run by anaesthesiologists in their own hospitals and, as a matter of fact, changed the approach to the technique of artificial respiration all over the world. Sometimes a group of coincidences can form the background for the way one meets a challenge. Let me try to analyse some of the factors which formed the anaesthetist’s point of view on all this, when I happened to be the anaesthetist.