Total intravenous anaesthesia using target controlled infusion
Total intravenous anaesthesia (TIVA) can be defined as a technique of general anaesthesia using a combination of agents given solely by the intravenous route and in the absence of all inhalational agents including nitrous oxide. The intravenous route has been used to administer drugs for hundreds of years...[more]

Hyfrecation
The hyfrecator is used to rapidly and selectively destroy tissue by the passage of an electric current through the tip of the hyfrecator as it touches the skin. This will burn off the tissue in question. Small skin lesions can be treated without anaesthesia but the procedure may require topical or local anaesthesia.[more]

Non-invasive Ventilation
The concept of mechanical ventilation first evolved with negative-pressure ventilation. In 1876, Woillez first developed a workable iron lung. In 1889, Alexander Graham Bell designed and built a prototype of iron lung for use with a newborn infant. In the late 1920s, Drinker introduced negative-pressure ventilation and popularized the iron lung...[more]