The molecular basis of narcosis.

Date:
1973
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Description

Dr John Nunn, Head of the Division of Anaesthesia at the Clinical Research Centre at Northwick Park Hospital, and Dr Michael Halsey, also from Northwick Park Hospital, discuss the molecular basis of anaesthesia. The lecture focuses on inhaled anaesthetics and includes a full account of the kind of anaesthetic drugs available at the time the lecture was filmed as well as the molecular actions of some of these drugs. The lecture is quite technical in parts but both Nunn and Halsey use a variety of tools to explain the subject, from graphs and diagrams to solid 3-dimensional models and a short film clip from an Oxford laboratory. They both frequently admit that a full understanding of how anaesthesia produces narcolepsy has not been found, particularly as each anaesthetic agent produces such different effects on the patient as well as different side effects.

Publication/Creation

London : University of London Audio-Visual Centre, 1973.

Physical description

1 videocassette (Umatic) (38 min.) : sound, black and white.
1 videocassette (1-inch) (38 min.) : sound, black and white.
1 videocassette (digibeta) (38 min.) : sound, black and white, PAL.
1 DVD (38 min.) : sound, black and white, PAL.

Creator/production credits

Presented by Dr John Nunn and Dr Michael Halsey. Introduced by Dr Ian Gilliland. Produced by David Sharp. Made for British Postgraduate Medical Federation. Made by University of London Audio-Visual Centre.

Notes

This video is one of around 310 titles, originally broadcast on Channel 7 of the ILEA closed-circuit television network, given to Wellcome Trust from the University of London Audio-Visual Centre shortly after it closed in the late 1980s. Although some of these programmes might now seem rather out-dated, they probably represent the largest and most diversified body of medical video produced in any British university at this time, and give a comprehensive and fascinating view of the state of medical and surgical research and practice in the 1970s and 1980s, thus constituting a contemporary medical-historical archive of great interest. The lectures mostly take place in a small and intimate studio setting and are often face-to-face. The lecturers use a wide variety of resources to illustrate their points, including film clips, slides, graphs, animated diagrams, charts and tables as well as 3-dimensional models and display boards with movable pieces. Some of the lecturers are telegenic while some are clearly less comfortable about being recorded; all are experts in their field and show great enthusiasm to share both the latest research and the historical context of their specialist areas.

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University of London

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