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Minimum Standards for Anesthesia Service.*

Anesthetist, San Francisco, Calif. President Associated Anesthetists of the United States and Canada.

Abstract

THE PROGRESS IN MEDICAL SCIENCE and its effect in lengthening human life in the past hundred years has shown no greater advance than in that branch of medicine known as anesthesiology. Modern surgery owes its very existence to it–the prolonged and intricate operative procedures of the present day are made not only possible but safe by the physiologic and psychic protection of anesthesia. The long record of "man's inhumanity to man" is surely somewhat balanced by the merciful obliteration of pain, for which anesthesia must be credited.

Anesthesia & Analgesia® is published for the International Anesthesia Research Society® by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins with the assistance of Stanford University Libraries' HighWire Press®. Copyright 2006 by the International Anesthesia Research Society. Online ISSN: 1526-7598   Print ISSN: 0003-2999