British Academic Anaesthetists 1950-60

The Anaesthetic Research Society emblem based on Mandragora officinarum

Anaesthesia is now very safe; it is safer now partly because of the research work that many academics carried out over the last seventy years, and partly due to improved training.

Michael Harrison has worked both in clinical anaesthesia and as a part-time academic since 1971. This presentation will cover a tiny fraction of the work carried out by British Academic Anaesthetists in the latter half of the 20^th century.