We re back in the Dark Ages.

Erica Frenkel The universal anesthesia machine

Anesthesiologists, surgeons are waiting around.

By the way... I shall want a barrel of this, well drugged.

Wait, poor spinal capacity.

Anesthesiology and critical care look at that bag.

You look fine. Has the anaesthetic worn off?

It starts by killing the motor neurons in your spinal cord.

From this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.

The fibers of the corticospinal tract terminate at different levels in the anterior horn of the grey matter of the spinal cord.

The nurses, anesthesiologist, the surgeon, all the assistants are waiting around.

They have a really cool anesthesia simulation lab out in Baltimore.

Now, have a look at that. That's the anesthesiology machine.

Anesthetic wears off. The patient feels pain.

Right now they're becoming anesthetized.

People with spinal cord injuries,

In this hospital, there is one person qualified to deliver anesthesia, and she's qualified because she has 12, maybe 18 months of training in anesthesia.

The second time was a procedure that involved local anesthesia.

She's been under sedation. She's just coming out of it.

Results may indicate lesion to the spinal cord nerve root, or intervertebral disc herniation pressing on the spinal nerve roots.

In the spinal cord is found the anterior white commissure.

like, having an operation before anesthetics was not fun.

Until anesthesia, the absence of sensation.

Together the gracile and cuneate form the dorsal column in the spine.

There is the brain stem in between the cerebral cortex and the spinal cord.

They moved me from intensive care to acute spinal.

He was the chief of anesthesiology in a hospital in Malawi, a teaching hospital.

I think we'd better put him under drugs for a few days.

In this hospital, there is one person qualified to deliver anesthesia, and she's qualified because she has 12, maybe 18 months of training in anesthesia.

I got him to come with me anesthesia tech come with me from the U.K.

It paralyzes you. It starts by killing the motor neurons in your spinal cord.

They picked as much broken bone as they could that had lodged in my spinal cord.

She had a spina bifida defect, a spinal cord abnormality.

And you may think that anesthetics work by sending you into some deep sleep, or by blocking your receptors so that you don't feel pain, but in fact most anesthetics don't work that way.

It's practiced, it's no anesthesia, it's a rusty old knife, and it was difficult.

Diagnosis Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is the imaging of choice in spinal cord lesions.

Here the lower motor neurons (LMN) of the corticospinal cord are located.

Spinal cord stimulation Electrical stimulation of the dorsal columns of the spinal cord can produce analgesia.

The spinal cord had breaks. The neurons were crossing in every which way.

Well, here's a man walks through the nettle patch, takes all the flowers for himself.

Examples of this fluid are cerebrospinal fluid, ocular fluid and joint fluid.

laterally, vertically, up and down in the spinal cord and they start interacting with other adjacent cells.

Because we were in the age before anesthesia, the agony of the patient is really as much of the public spectacle as the surgery itself.

Anesthesia gave surgeons the freedom to operate.

I'm a senior resident in anesthesia in intensive care at the University Hospital of the West Indies.