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Timeline: 1900 - 1909

Abbreviations used in citations:

NB = AANA NewsBulletin | J  = AANA Journal |
Bankert = Marianne Bankert’s Watchful Care: A History of America’s Nurse Anesthetists |
Thatcher
= Virginia Thatcher’s History of Anesthesia With Emphasis on the Nurse Specialist


1900

Magaw published "Observations on 1092 Cases of Anesthesia from January 1, 1889 to January 1, 1900" in the St. Paul Medical Journal.

 

1901

 

1903

Florence Henderson became Dr. Charles Mayo's anesthetist at St. Mary’s Hospital in Rochester, Minn.

 

1906

Alice Magaw published "A Review of Over 14,000 Surgical Anesthetics" in Surgery, Gynecology, and Obstetrics.

 

1908

Dr. George Crile asked Agatha Hodgins to become his anesthetist at Lakeside Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio.

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1909

Florence Henderson published her first article, “The Nurse as an Anaesthetist,” in the American Journal of Nursing.

The first hospital-based nurse anesthesia training program was opened at St Vincent's Hospital in Portland, Ore., by nurse anesthetist Agnes McGee. (Thatcher p95 )

 

 

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