Anaesthetic machine
Máquina de anestesia
- Date
- 1902-1907 · confidence medium
- Place
- Lübeck, Germany
- Credited to
- Heinrich Dräger y Otto Roth
- Field
- Life & health
What it is
Medical device for generating and controllably mixing inhalational anaesthetic gases and vapours; developed by Heinrich Dräger and Otto Roth (Roth-Dräger apparatus).
What it led to
- Modern anaesthesia with precise dose control
- Mechanical ventilators and integrated operating-room equipment
- International standardization of anaesthetic safety