- Until 1846, hemp, opium, coca leaves, alcohol, rogatina in the teeth and a blow to the head with a club served as general anesthesia.
- The work of an anesthesiologist is compared to the profession of a pilot — hours of boredom and moments of horror.
- Vigilance and quick reaction are the main qualities of the anesthesiologist.
- Resuscitators consider the «light at the end of the tunnel» to be a consequence of a lack of oxygen in the brain during a coma, but a picture of the afterlife.
- Red hair people need 20% more anesthesia than brunettes and blondes, they are more sensitive.
— To amazing facts, I would add that today medicine has learned to do complex operations for long-livers, — added resuscitator-anesthesiologist of the National Hospital Nazerke Amangeldykyzy, — Almaty ranks second in the number of long-livers in Kazakhstan. We began to perform operations on them, such as removing gallstones or fractures in the limbs. In the last three years alone, I have anesthetized 20 patients over 90 in the hospital. But ten years ago, for them, a hip fracture meant death.
A more detailed interview can be read here. https://yvision.kz/post/chas-skuki-mgnoveniya-uzhasa-interesnye-fakty-ob-anesteziologii-1012123
